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From a distance, the life of the brilliantly subversive Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray has often seemed one of chaos and dissipation. Things don't look much better up close in Rodge Glass' Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, which variously paints him as garrulous, self-centered and a "bloody devious old bastard" to boot. That's probably not the picture Gray had in mind when he agreed to let Glass, his factotum and former student, be his biographer and shouted, "Be my Boswell ... Tell the world of my genius...
...Livingstone a few feet ahead of me on Mass. Ave. From behind, I could see her pace start to change as she turned onto Holyoke Street and passed Sandrine’s. She walked by the bistro and then stopped for a second, gazing into the big glass windows with couples eating on the other side...
...slow descent into the Looking Glass land that hurricanes create begins just south of Houston along Interstate Highway 45, the road to Galveston Island. The first odd note is the number of blown out billboards and signs. The gold has gone from the Golden Arches, the toll-free phone number on the billboard for the class action law firm has been torn and tossed to the wind. Then the blue tarps begin to appear, stretched taut over the rooftops of strip malls and apartment buildings...
Tian Ye, the leader of the Chinese team, said that after viewing the crisp glass boxes and the curiously bulky structure of the Science Center, he was dazzled by the enormity and modernity of the University...
Davis’s piece of plywood is bordered by mahogany and covered with red glass to elevate the value of the imagery. Davis says that this frame is meant to comment on conformity within society. “Consumer culture has people so framed because the particular thing we want is first made but then sold to us in a particular context—a concept then chosen by the company...