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...better, made more ambiguous--by its smallest elements. He also helped redefine the knucklehead weirdness of snapshot photography as a powerful new aesthetic. The foregrounds washed out by flash, the figures cut off by the edge of the picture, the odd foot that pokes into the frame--like Jimi Hendrix, turning the "error" of amplifier feedback into another kind of guitar riff, Friedlander used those "gaffes" to get places where mere perfection could never take him. His pictures, with their lyrical congestion, don't resolve into a single meaning. They have a dozen. Not one of them is the last...
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...Chris Rock says about The Longest Yard, "It's a 30-year-old movie. The young movie audience doesn't know it even existed. For those people, [the new one] is just its own movie." Besides, he asks, what's wrong with a remake? "[Plenty of] Hendrix songs are remakes, and the first couple of Beatles albums had a lot of somebody else's songs...
...students ready to become workers in the postcollege world. Vocational schools like DeVry and Strayer, which focus on teaching practical skills, are seeing a mini-boom. Their enrollment grew 48% from 1996 to 2000. More traditional schools are scrambling to give their courses a practical spin. In the fall, Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., will introduce a program called the Odyssey project, which the school says will encourage students to "think outside the book" in areas like "professional and leadership development" and "service to the world." Dozens of other schools have set up similar initiatives...
...DIED. JOHN PEEL, 65, British disk jockey whose keen ear for new talent helped shape modern rock 'n' roll; while on holiday in Cuzco, Peru. Peel joined the BBC in 1967, the year Radio 1 was launched, and was the first DJ to broadcast songs by Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Clash. He went on to help create an audience for punk and, later, for alternative bands like the Smiths and Nirvana. In the 1980s, he hosted the Peel Sessions, live performances by a range of acts, many of which became classic recordings. Described by friends as an eternal...