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...whole culture or philosophy gradually building up, more or less by chance, from scratch. What you come away with is a great insight into unconventional ways of making art. Duchamp, Ray and Picabia were not faux rebels or officially sanctioned pets like the art stars of the present moment. Being original for them was not an affectation, but a necessity...
...wanted and inflict any pain," casually strangled a Chinese man to pass the time. For weeks in 1945, until the U.S. troops showed up, Ballard was not sure the war was really over. "To this day as I doze in an armchair," he writes, "I feel the same brief moment of uncertainty...
...Remember this moment with these people,” he intoned. “When you’ve forgotten 90 percent of what’s on the front page, when you’ve forgotten about that test you did poorly on, when you see blue flashing lights in your rearview mirror. Remember this...
...Pity the lovely Amy Adams, forced to awkwardly sing her way through “Happy Working Song” and to dance with a Ken Doll come alive during “So Close.” At least Kristen Chenoweth got carried off stage during her musical moment. And then there were the montages–oh, and there were many. Thanks to the Academy’s desperate preparation for an unscripted ceremony, the audience was treated to a plethora of clips of awards past. I knew it was going to be a tedious affair when Jack...
...National Assembly. This fraud was the work of the America’s supposedly unfaltering ally in the War on Terror, General (ret.) Pervez Musharraf and his desire to paint an image of Pakistan as an extremely dangerous, unstable country ready to fall into the hands of extremists the moment he leaves. Musharraf pretends that he is the only hope for the US in Pakistan. Closer analysis, however, suggests that his claims are far from true. In the 2008 elections—which were much freer and fairer than those of 2002—only 6 seats went...