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...craze that Julian Schnabel started with his film Basquiat, you are wrong. Or at least, Phoebe Hoban, author of the most recent sensationalist Basquiat biography, hopes you are. Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art retraces the steps of Basquiat's quick rise to fame in the midst of the hyper-consuming New York art world of the 1980s. After chalking up Basquiat's success to the happenstance of being in the right trendy scene at the right time and the prevalence of the art world's "reverse racism" (whatever that means), the book seems to revel in the artist...
...self-explanatory. Of course, if Basquiat's work were so literal and simpleminded, then Hoban would be correct in her implicit argument that Basquiat is more significant as a representative of his times than he is as an artist, that his art work is valid only because of the hyper, rebellious lifestyle that produced it, that Basquiat is more interesting for what he destroyed than what he created...
...jack cheese might with pride be called a burrito, or that the proper recipe for guacamole calls for mayonnaise. Just as Hank Quinlan--the crooked cop Welles plays in his recently re-released film noir--might have done in their shoes, they are better served drowning the lot in hyper-colored treacly margaritas served in icy troughs...
...rubles" (some $600 million to $800 million). Officially, the central bank only admits to printing "less than 1 billion" rubles. But a former bank official fears that as many as 50 billion rubles will be minted in a vain attempt to reflate the economy. A far likelier result is hyper-inflation. Inflation has already rocketed to 67% since the Aug. 17 devaluation, and is forecast to hit 290% by year...
Supposing the majority of bag lunch folk to be hyper pre-meds, Harvard Dining Services (HDS) has assiduously removed all traces of caffeine from the meal, offering only milk, water, and orange juice for beverages. But HDS and The Crimson err in assuming that only manic undergrads indulge in bag lunches. There is another breed of student queuing up at Loker: the sports...