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...curator of the Museum of Modern art in the early 1950s, he organized perhaps the most ambitious, most successful photo exhibition of all time, The Family of Man - 503 shots of shared human experiences gathered from around the world. Edward Steichen Lives in Photography concludes with a large, computerized, virtual reconstruction of the Family of Man. Steichen - the perfectionist, innovator and promoter - would have loved...
...Rainbows” is Great chiefly because it’s an album.Sort of. It’s not a CD—there’s no jewel case or liner notes. But as a pay-what-you-want download, it’s perfectly representative of what modern “albums” are. Plus—oh yeah—it’s got music.Thom Yorke evidently got all his bleep-blips out with last year’s solo outing, “The Eraser.” On “In Rainbows...
Carlos Alazraqui is known for his role as Officer James Garcia on Comedy Central’s “Reno 911.” He is also a seasoned voiceover artist, providing his talent to Rocko on “Rocko’s Modern Life,” Mr. Crocker on Nickelodeon’s “Fairly Odd Parents,” and to the ever-famous “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” Chihuahua of the fast-food chain’s campaign. He starred in his own half-hour stand up comedy...
...France, and the United States, Vargas Llosa’s life has been, in many ways, as cosmopolitan and as diverse as the Bad Girl’s is. Indeed, it is the book’s cosmopolitanism that fills out the rather bare plotline and gives it a modern, worldly shape. Each episode between the good boy and the bad girl is unique only because of the backdrop on which it takes place, whether they’re among postmodern intellectuals and would-be revolutionaries in France or smugglers pushing illegal substances in Japan. All of the characters...
Beijingers have a reputation in China for aloofness and a dry, self-mocking wit. According to Wang Shuo, China's most famous modern novelist, it's a sense of irony developed over centuries as a way of living with the fallout from the capital's endless factional power struggles. If so, the capital's 17 million residents are getting an excellent opportunity to test their famous detachment this week as Beijing hosts the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The get-together, held once every five years, sees senior cadres of the 70 million-strong Party gather...