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...Lowdown: By attacking the art world from all angles (artists, dealers, exhibitors, critics, students), Thornton gives us a one-stop tutorial on an often insular subculture. Accessible to even those who couldn't care less about art, Seven Days is light-hearted but sociologically acute, allowing us to both laugh at and empathize with those for whom "contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion." As Thornton writes, "For many art world insiders...concept-driven art is a kind of existential channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards...
...slavery into the 21st century (because they opposed the Civil War) and for the Holocaust (you know why). A flashback to 1938 shows Neville Chamberlain signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler, then shining the Nazi leader's shoes as he and his henchman sing Kumbaya. Finally seeing the red light, Malone takes the Garden stage to proclaim, "We're in a real war, people, with the worst threat since the Nazis!" And he doesn't mean the Patriot...
Although there are risks associated with CFL bulbs, many maintain that they are still the greener alternative when compared to traditional light bulbs...
Based on her project’s research, Takasaki found that most mercury emissions come from coal-fired electrical power, and because CFL bulbs use less electricity than incandescent light bulbs, they actually reduce the net amount of mercury released into the environment...
...early voting in swing districts of states won by George W. Bush in 2004. The crowds are a mix of long-time supporters and targeted fence sitters, though when you're pushing 100,000 it seems more like everyone and their brother. And the speeches are pure gravy: light on policy and full of Obama's greatest hits, from variations on his 2004 Democratic National Convention line "We are more than a collection of Red States and Blue States; we are the United States of America," to his trademark riff...