Word: modernist
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...seems every few years the Hong Kong-born, English-trained and (for the past 35 years) Australian-based photographer is discovered anew. There have been retrospectives in London and Canberra, and an ongoing mission to measure the rest of Morley's oeuvre against this minx in the Modernist chair with the Mona Lisa smile.v...
...semitic rant, Ganji seemed to hit a raw nerve when he appeared to equate Jewish (and Christian) fundamentalists with Islamic extremists. "The U.S. has to stop its one-sided support of Israel," said Ganji, speaking in a large screening room adorned with an original Jasper Johns and other post-modernist art. That comment and others raised the hackles of many in attendance, including multibillionaire media mogul Haim Saban, who asked, "When was the last time you saw a Christian or a Jew put a belt around their stomach, go on a bus, and kill innocent women and children...
...difference is that, in the late '40s and early '50s, mainstream culture was still defined by the standards of good taste, whatever that is. Usually it meant congratulating a work of fiction for its modernist notions and humanist politics. That wouldn't fit Spillane at all; his novels were, arguably, post-humanist. No tastemaker admitted to enjoying the pulps, though they contained some of the most vigorous writing around. Few critics defended Spillane, even to establish their contrarian credentials by going against the genteel grain. (Spillane's one cheerleader among serious novelists was Ayn Rand, a dogmatic right-winger. That...
...just a matter of his eye makeup or his variously funny ways of walking, running or sitting still (as when he discovers, to his dismay, that cannibals have decided to make him the main course at their banquet). It's also that Jack is, in truth, a modernist, unaccountably displaced to the 17th century and obliged to undertake the mindless heroics not only of an antique movie genre but also of the spirit of an age when all are heedlessly charging into action, swords slicing the air, instead of more sensibly retreating to their studies to think things over when...
...just a matter of his eye makeup or his funny way of walking, running or (sometimes) sitting still - as when he discovers, to his dismay, that the cannibals have decided to make him the centerpiece of their banquet. It goes deeper than that: Jack is a modernist, unaccountably obliged to the mindless heroics not only of an antique movie genre, but to the whole ethos of an era when everyone heedlessly advances into action, swords drawn, instead of, more sensibly, retreating into their studies to think things over when danger threatens...