Word: illusioners
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Empires, as they say, are fragile human creations that wither in the face of inevitability. The treacherous deceit of invincibility, which allows said empires a brief illusion of immortality, only leads to ruin when weaknesses in an empire become palpable pillars of harsh reality.
With Lust, Caution Lee is charting new territory, trading Brokeback's Ansel Adams vistas for oppressive World War II Shanghai. But Lust, Caution shares with that film a mournful, elegiac tone. "It's this idea of repressed or impossible love," Lee says. "I find that yearning attractive. Somehow, it's...
Maybe it's not so hard to connect Eliasson at 17-contorting his reflection into a kinetic art object-with Eliasson at 40, producing works that require you to jump in and take part in them, to see but also to do. That's the secret of one of the...
Freedom wasn't part of the description, and indeed Russia is headed in the opposite direction domestically, with fewer voices being heard. Even the illusion of choice, which the Kremlin had carefully managed in the 2004 elections, is crumbling. The upcoming elections (the parliament in the fall, the President in...
These inconveniences are too high a price to pay for the illusion of informed decisions. In the face of decades of empirical evidence, we continue to trust our gut, and shopping week fuels our folly.