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...went to Paris this month to receive the Légion d'Honneur. After recording three new albums--the jazz-inspired Haunted Heart, the Strauss opera Daphne and a collection of sacred songs--Renée Fleming, 46, spoke with TIME's Terry McCarthy about practicing in front of the mirror and learning to sing in Elvish...
...slide into sophomoric humor. One such example is the final scene, in which she “performs†a song using multiple orifices. The film even includes a scene where Silverman finds herself wildly in love with her reflection (and proceeds to passionately make out with the mirror), a piece that seems like a hallmark in the compendium of stupid humor. True, one cannot adequately create an hour-plus comedic feature without some variety, but Silverman’s sketches often seem no more fulfilling than turning on the TV and flipping about to various late night comedy...
...suggesting to Auckland clinical psychologist Gwendoline Smith that SSRIs don't work much better than a sugar pill. When depression first hit her 10 years ago she was reluctant to use medication, figuring she could get well by exercising more, adjusting her diet and smiling in front of a mirror. But for that approach to work, she says, she'd have needed to practice it for six to 12 stress-free months on a secluded island. Instead, she went on the drugs and felt better in two weeks. Author of the recently reprinted handbook Depression Explained (ABC Books), Smith espouses...
...tank, or of people carrying loads down stygian streets, to convey a powerful sense of gloom. At one point he decides to see how many effigies to Kim Jong Il he can find in a single day. After counting more than 30 of them, he looks in the mirror and is horrified to see the Dear Leader staring back at him. It takes a minute for him to realize that it's merely the reflection of a wall portrait, but the feeling of Kim's omnipresence is disturbing...
...Ruscha’s work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confront us daily,†writes the Carpenter Center in their online description of the event. And whether such sweeping praise is true or whether Ruscha just really knows how to sharpen knives, the lecture promises to be interesting...