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...rational world. Whatever that meant, it led him to the dazzling trompe l'oeil illusionism of Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, from 1938, which reads simultaneously as a landscape, a dog in profile, a human face and a tabletop with a fruit bowl holding a heap of pears. This is a canvas in which the eye leads the mind down unexpected roads while the mind keeps pulling back, trying to get its bearings...
...Punters who believe they can find gemstones in the scrap heap face one other glass shard. When SOEs go public, government entities continue to hold up to 70% of the shares. Bejing in effect banned the sale of these shares, so the state would maintain corporate control. But in June 2001, at the height of the market bubble, the government announced that it would allow the sale of some "nontradable" shares and use the proceeds to fund a national pension scheme. Investors panicked, fearing a flood of new shares would drive down prices. Although the government quickly reversed its decision...
...Live at Sin-é DVD of coffeehouse footage (2003); and, just in August, the 10th anniversary Grace: Legacy Edition, featuring the original album, a B-sides disc and yet another DVD. (A Buckley documentary, Amazing Grace, is currently making the film-festival rounds.) It's possible that this posthumous heap originated in an honest impulse - much of it was curated by Guibert - but packaging every bad video, throwaway cover and alternate take not only appears greedy; it also has the side effect of making Buckley seem undisciplined and, worse yet, unpromising. Oddly, the people doing the best job of memorializing...
...Live at Sin-é DVD of coffeehouse footage (2003); and, just in August, the 10th anniversary Grace: Legacy Edition, featuring the original album, a B-sides disc and yet another DVD. (A Buckley documentary, Amazing Grace, is currently making the film-festival rounds.) It's possible that this posthumous heap originated in an honest impulse--much of it was curated by Guibert--but packaging every bad video, throwaway cover and alternate take not only appears greedy; it also has the side effect of making Buckley seem undisciplined and, worse yet, unpromising...
...ROME: TOTAL WAR Build the world's greatest empire, and heap glory on your family, battle by epic battle...