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Paul Valéry is cited at the beginning of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” as saying, “we must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting...
As telltale odors of hydrogen sulfide warn geological surveyors of the impending eruption of Mount St. Helens, students who hail from the Northwest said yesterday they are following the news with interest from 3,000 miles away.
Last semester, Professor Manning Marable of Columbia University delivered a lecture entitled “The Future of Black Studies” for the Dubois Institute at Harvard University. He raised a number of critiques of the academic discipline at this moment in time and offered a glimpse of what...
Now he can spread that complicated charisma on a bigger stage--if he wants. "I'm pretty open to work anywhere in the world," he says, "including the United States, of course." He recently made an indie drama, The King, set in Texas, in which he plays William Hurt's...
Leading a life of careless fun, however, can be difficult when you live in Paris during the 1930s. To the south, the Spanish Civil War is raging with the fascist Nationalists slowly crushing the Republican freedom fighters, and just ahead lies the impending Nazi invasion of France. Although she is...