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...depictions of Indonesian village life produced by Bonnet and others were dismissed by Sudjojono as so much shallow Orientalism. "For my people, reality is the reality of rice," he wrote in 1950, arguing for a muscular realism. One of the painters who was moved by Sudjojono's words was Hendra Gunawan, and in the early 1950s the admiring Hendra (who is better known simply by his first name) joined Sudjojono in the cultural arm of the PKI, the Institute of People's Culture, referred to by its Indonesian acronym LEKRA. Sudjojono was to become its leader. "In Asia...
...appeal the ruling; some fear that his absence from the courtroom last week was a ploy by his lawyers to manufacture grounds for an appeal. And the sentence handed down is considerably softer than the life terms being served by his henchmen. "According to any legal logic," says Frans Hendra Winata, a Jakarta-based legal expert, "the mastermind behind the killing has to get a heavier verdict than the executioners." The court explained its decision with a list of mitigating factors: that Tommy had been depressed, had a family to support, that he was young and capable of reform. Either...
...nature and "discovering" the human species, while in hospitals and in jungle clinics exceedingly powerful mutant bacteria are emerging that can't be treated with antibiotics. In the past decade, at least 50 new viruses have appeared, including Ebola Ivory Coast, Andes virus, hepatitis G, Fakeeh, Pirital, Whitewater Arroyo, Hendra virus, Black Lagoon virus, Nipah and Oscar virus. This summer West Nile virus showed up for the first time in the western hemisphere, when it was discovered in New York City...
Hard as it may be to concoct articles more bizarre than what the tabloids already run, the challenge has been taken up by Tony Hendra, 41, the editor-entrepreneur behind the 1978 parody Not the New York Times and last April's Off the Wall Street Journal. Says Hendra: "The Enquirer style is difficult. You have to keep sentences to ten words and use 'mind-boggling' and 'national survey' over and over. To get the layout right you have to unlearn everything you know about good design...
...close imitation was taken, possibly sincerely, as flattery in the Lantana, Fla., headquarters of the Enquirer. Said Enquirer Editor Iain Calder, 43: "Obviously, I noticed the similarity. It's another confirmation that we are No. 1." Hendra's partner and publisher, Larry Durocher, 42, joked in an interview that the major difference between the publications is that the spoof is stapled together, while the Enquirer is merely folded. Then he noted another distinction that probably ought to matter to the 11 million credulous readers of the major U.S. scandal tabloids. Said Durocher: "We make no claim that...