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...Gail Jones' seductive new novel, his captive audience is young Australian Alice Black, who is researching her book, The Poetics of Modernity. And over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also keep them apart. "I wanted to read certain omnipresent phenomena through this ambivalence," says Jones via e-mail. "The telephone for example is often represented as an estranging and distancing mechanism. I decided to go the other...
...lionesses with gleaming yellow eyes and other half-glimpsed animals from disparate continents. And in the most erotic work on view, the haunting Snake Charmer (1907), a woman's nude figure in dark silhouette stands by a river against an unearthly sunset - or is it moonrise? Flowers and grasses glow with an inner light. Her face is partly hidden by her flute and by the snake draped round her neck - we see only the pale glint of the whites of her eyes. Rousseau said that when he visited Paris' Botanic Gardens he felt transported: "When I am in the greenhouses...
...front-row tickets to a Phish concert. She can come if she wants, so long as she doesn’t expect me to pay any attention to her or protect her from the tour rats Best way for a girl to get your attention: Cover herself in glow-in-the-dark paint and turn off the lights... ohhhh yeahhhh... Where to find you on a Saturday night: Sipping scotch with the lads down at the snooker lodge as we regale each other in ye olden times gone past of yesteryear First thing you notice about a girl: How holy...
...found. In her refreshingly bold “Non-Stop Mix,” the dozen songs overlap one another like a DJ starter pack scientifically formulated to simulate the club experience. Upon listening, you can almost feel the bodies rubbing against each other in a disco ball glow. While her recent work has focused on her politics and the “bigger” questions, “Confessions” steers clear from anything controversial, a big change for the Queen of Pop. On the track “I Love New York...
GETTING THAT HOLIDAY TAN French skin-care company Clarins has come up with a moisturizer that's equipped with self-tanning agents so it hydrates while delivering a faux glow...