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...comes as no surprise, then, that Dongala’s Little Boys Come from the Stars (translated from the French Les Petits Garcons Naissent Aussi des Etoiles), his first book out of exile, reads as a political satire. Through the eyes of 15-year-old Matapari, we get a naïve, Candide-like account of Congolese politics, especially from Matapari’s impressions of his Uncle Boula Boula, the lapdog extraordinaire of the regime-of-the-moment. During a visit from the “President” (actually a Communist dictator) and his officials, Matapari remarks...
During the 1960s," Andy Warhol once said, "I think people forgot what emotions were supposed to be, and I don't think they've ever remembered." Warhol's words are belied by the strong sensations - humor, outrage, nostalgia - that reverberate through "Les Années Pop," the landmark exhibit that opened March 15 at Paris' Centre Pompidou. For if it can often be difficult to seize the meaning behind a given piece of Pop (short for popular) Art, this show's great strength is to put 500 works of art, architecture, fashion, design and film into the context...
...With tunes by the Beatles, the Who and the Rolling Stones forming a ubiquitous soundtrack, "Les Années Pop" is not so much an art exhibition as what in the '60s was called a happening. The sheer three-dimensionality of it - Christo's plastic-wrapped bicycle, César's compressed automobiles, Claes Oldenburg's Store with its huge floppy pie and ice-cream cone, the aluminum-foil recreation of Andy Warhol's Factory - signals that this is a show to be experienced rather than just observed. Similarly, the inclusion of consumer products - from Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian...
Before her role in "All My Children," Riegel played Sarah in American Pie, acted as Young Cosette on Broadway's Les Miserables, and played the voice of Young Miriam in Dreamworks' animated film Prince of Egypt...
...Since the end of the Cold War, there have been three or four of these comprehensive reviews of the type President Bush is now initiating. Les Aspin did one, William Perry did one, and William Cohen did one. But President Clinton never had the standing in the armed forces to attempt to remake the military. Not as a draft dodger. Not after the gays in the military debacle. And, of course, he's a Democrat. In the eyes of many in the Pentagon, that's three strikes. The Republicans can be a lot tougher on the military because people believe...