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...legislator has taken his fake responsibility to provide fake services to his fake constituents in California with unparalleled humility. According to the press release from his “office” Representative Jonathan Padilla D-California Winthrop has launched a website in order to “help inform my constituents about what I’m doing in Congress and how they can get involved in helping to make America a better place?...

Author: By Renee G. Stern | Title: Congressman Padilla (D-Winthrop House) | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...What is a typical dinner discussion like in your household? Do you discuss work, or recent literature?CM: Much of the discussion at the dinner table last night was about how our daughter had pajama day. The level is not necessarily so high.4. FM: Does the writer-critic pairing inform your professional work? CM: It’s easy for me and hard for him. When I show him my work, which sometimes I do, I want him to be my loving husband and a fierce and honest critic, and I want him honestly and fiercely to tell...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Claire Messud and James Wood | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...Portland Mercury in 2007: “You can't trust them with your young.” In doing so, Adams reverted to a stereotype about stereotyping and became the boy who cried bigot. I would venture that Adams was indeed correct in his assumption that bigotry would inform the media’s treatment of his alleged affair. Whereas older men who hit on younger women are thought of as sleazy (read: Bill Clinton), men who solicit young men are dubbed “lewd” or “perverted” (Larry Craig, anyone...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Hypocrisy on Tap | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...their feelings hurt, the nature of the relationship—between two men with a significant age difference—violated enough of our society’s sexual norms to prohibit Adams from ascending to office. The ultimate tragedy is that the private sphere is allowed to inform the public to such a drastic degree...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Hypocrisy on Tap | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Braque pored over the great still lifes--all those apples and bunched tablecloths--and took from them ideas about distorted forms and tilted planes that he and Picasso would carry into the profound thickets of Cubism. The serene heft of Czanne's many views of Mont Sainte-Victoire inform the muscular Maine landscapes of the American painter Marsden Hartley. The enduring reach of Czanne can even be felt in Ellsworth Kelly's Lake II, a color-field wall panel from 2002 that distills and abstracts the visual experience of water, just as the old Frenchman distilled the forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Master of Us All | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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