Word: headlong
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...depicting maniacally grinning figures in a Tiananmen Square-like setting, netted nearly $6 million in another London sale. Riffing on Deng Xiaoping's maxim "To get rich is glorious," Yue's paintings capture China's exuberant love affair with consumerism. But even as he also satirizes his countrymen's headlong race to make money, the native of Daqing, a grim oil town in China's northeast, doesn't view his shiny new millionaire status with much irony. "What's wrong with laughing?" Yue demands with a serious face, digging into a Shanghai eatery's rendition of braised pork shoulder...
...event that occasioned this headlong dash onto a banana peel was the launch just two months earlier--and 50 years ago this October--of Russia's fabled Sputnik, the world's first satellite. The U.S. reacted to the event as any mature, technologically savvy nation would, which is to say we lost our marbles. The Russians had seized the high ground of space, we cried. It would be only a matter of time before they were gliding overhead, dropping bombs on us like overripe fruit from a highway overpass...
...putting, jump back on, because Maddin's films - from Tales of the Gimli Hospital, his first full-length feature 20 years ago, to last year's silent feature Brand Upon the Brain!, and especially his magnificent 6-min. The Heart of the World, commissioned by TIFF in 2000 - are headlong, heartfelt, weirdly sexy and a hoot. I don't want to diminish his artistic achievement, but the Maddin oeuvre is a joy to sit through...
...what’s in store as it transitions from cacophonous dirge to handclapping barnburner. More than forty minutes into the album, “Spitting Venom” comes crawling out of the gate with a restrained Brock and a twang of Modest Mouse past before jumping headlong into more seemingly standard dance fare. Three minutes in, however, there’s no sign of letting up, just a quick breather before Brock begins cautioning “Let it all drop / Oh let it all fall off.” By this point, the drums have dropped...
...business major at the University of Colorado at Boulder, set up a similar club in November. In three years as a traceur, as parkour people call themselves, Ford has had one notable injury: separating his shoulder last summer after his foot clipped a rail and sent him headlong toward concrete. But instead of face planting, he managed to keep rolling over. "I like to think parkour actually saved me from more serious injuries," he says. "I know how to fall...