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...reason for the Palestinian failure - or refusal - to shut down the militant groups is that organizations such as Hamas are now part of the fabric of mainstream Palestinian society. Attempting to shut them down would inevitably ignite a Palestinian civil war. Even moderates such as Abbas, who believes the armed intifada has been disastrous for the Palestinian cause, think that the only way to end it is by reestablishing a consensus among the fighters to return to a peace process...
...help if we called them tragic books?) They get sold in comic-book stores or shelved in that corner of Barnes & Noble that buzzes with preteen X-Men fans, a place where self-respecting adult readers fear to tread. No wonder Pekar wrote American Splendor for 27 years before mainstream America finally took notice. The graphic-novel business is reportedly worth about $100 million a year, but it still has no honor in the country that invented it. Yet some of the most interesting, most daring, most heartbreaking art being created right now, of both the verbal and the visual...
...Chagall who introduced Jewish life into the mainstream of Western art. Proclaiming the glories of his people by way of his exalted memories, he would become the master poet of the Jewish world, the Walt Whitman of the shtetl. But all his life he also adapted Christian imagery to his own purposes. (Remember those flying lovers?) He returned again and again to the Crucifixion but in versions in which Christ is plainly an executed Jew, his loins wrapped in a blue-striped Jewish prayer shawl. By the late 1930s, in paintings like White Crucifixion, Chagall used Golgotha as a sign...
...camera (Ed's Michael Ian Black, Good Day Live's Jillian Barberie, porn star Ron Jeremy), it's a bit skimpy on analysis. (Here's "actor-comedian" Mitch Silpa on Carol Burnett's Tarzan yell: "Her Tarzan yell was great.") But you could argue, say, that the mainstream success of Cheech and Chong's drug comedy Up in Smoke, which VH1 lauds but IFC ignores, says more about the '70s' anything-goes Zeitgeist than McCabe & Mrs. Miller...
...made a comeback with his 2001 album The Truth Hurts. He knows how to package a bumping, catchy song, but don’t be fooled by the bouncy rhythms—Ed O.G. can still wrangle rhymes and create rap that’s real. His lyrics evade mainstream hip-hop’s party mentality, dealing with self-image and everyday decisions. In the DJ Premier-produced “Sayin’ Somethin’,” Ed O.G. raps: “If the opportunity presents itself / I might just have to go and reinvent...