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...defiantly anachronistic. Black-Peter is fond of 40s jive talk ("Now dig this") and antique hipster choreography. Mary Jane, who harbors the outmoded ambition to be a Broadway musical star, sings a ballad ("They Say It's Wonderful") from Irving Berlin's 1946 show Annie Get Your Gun. The film's main emotional points are loyalty to your parents, or parent figures, and fidelity to your friends - the lessons of the uber-square Andy Hardy movies from the 40s. And Spidey 3, like the first film in the series, is a kind of remake of the mid-50s Rebel Without...
...Nancy Gibbs' writing and Hector Emanuel's photography. Nothing like the V.T. shooting has happened here, and I am extremely thankful that I now have a better understanding of the event and, therefore, deeper sympathy. The photos were very beautiful and painfully haunting. The one of Cho with the gun pointed at the camera was particularly troubling. I had never been moved to tears by a photo before. Thank you most of all for putting pictures of victims on the cover rather than a picture of the murderer...
...Poor but Adorable) and Komando Pasukan Suka Susu (Milk Lovers' Force Command). For an exercise in semantics, the resulting CD, Acronym Wars, is ear-splittingly entertaining. And as presented at Darren Knight Gallery alongside military-style musical memorabilia, it's an intriguing cultural artifact. Elsewhere in the show, machine-gun-shaped guitars carved from mahogany stand sentinel alongside bespoke batik military fatigues, which Kesminas says are key "because in a way the project is all about camouflage." All sorts of things are "hiding behind the acronyms...
...With fun and flair, Kesminas shows that much is permissible. "It's the perfect time," he says, "and in all honesty, five years ago you'd probably be put in jail for doing this." The artist nearly was, though not in Indonesia. While lugging back one of his machine-gun guitars from Yogyakarta last year, Kesminas was detained for five hours at Melbourne Airport. "You could say that I was asking for it, and I am," he says. "The project does straddle that fault line, and for me that's the interesting spot...
...this aspect of Korean culture can hardly be used to explain the case of Seung-Hui Cho. It takes more than cultural stigma to make a person load and cock a gun...