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Besides, Connor loved the piece--a splendid portrait of a woman often mistaken for Rembrandt's sister. "There are Rembrandts," says Connor, who could probably run Christie's and Sotheby's from inside the can, "and there are Rembrandts." Though it was valued at $1 million at the time, "it was actually worth" much more, he says, given the inflated art market...
That this profane creation could have been mistaken for a calcified Superman with a biblical pedigree evokes patronizing chuckles today. But Jacobs, an undersung writer (Beautiful Soup, The Egg of the Glak and Other Stories), treats bunkum and hypocrisy as endearingly ambivalent national traits. Unsurprisingly, his all-time champion of this view is P.T. Barnum, who at one point tells General Tom Thumb that "our mission is to startle and amuse, to make our audience pay too much for too little and forget to hang us from the nearest lamppost...
Bjork's work, in contrast, has been characterized by an insistent sprightliness. Yet that upbeat temperament should not be mistaken for shallowness or lack of guile. Throughout Homogenic, there is a current of danger and violence. On the driving Bachelorette, Bjork sings, "I'm a fountain of blood, my love/ In the shape of a girl." And on the high-voltage, techno-infused Pluto, she sings, "Excuse me/ but I just have to explode." The album's sound is a collision of classical style (violins and cellos) and bruising electronic beats...
...articles made no mention of effective treatment alternatives. Collective research on the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders, including severe forms, strongly suggests that cognitive therapies are just as effective as their chemical alternatives, as well as less costly and safer. Unfortunately, psychotherapies are often overlooked in the mistaken belief that medications are shortcuts to mental health. WILLIAM DANTON DAVID ANTONUCCIO Reno...
...York Times captured this imbalance even as it mirrored the same problems of mistaken focus. An article Monday on the missing videotapes of wealthy folks hob-nobbing with the President over coffee explained: "Mr. Clinton hoped to devote the day to sounding an alarm over global warming and wielding the line-item veto on unwanted military projects. Instead he and his aides spent hours defensively answering questions...