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...Munch With Masters
Letourneau counts himself among the converts. He studies his cows as they munch on the lush green pasture, a native mix of clover, timothy, orchard and bromegrass. He's talking about cutting back on his contract work; he wants to concentrate on his own farm and not work so hard. With all the healthy young stock he has got, he expects to be milking about 70 cows (up from 36) by this time next year. "I want to be able to retire in nine years," he says. That would certainly take some of the load off his arthritic knees...
...unspoken, perhaps unconscious axiom of criticism that optimistic works are dismissed as sentimental, while pessimistic works are pronounced profound. Some other time we'll munch on the reasons that critics, nestled in the comfort of their intellectual splendor, overvalue works that say life stinks. For now, we'll note that any serious film with a bright or dewy eye runs the risk of exile from the received canon of dark and Sturmy cinema...
...contemporary artists - a tradition followed by subsequent heads of the Albertina. "We are a living museum, which is why we are staging very modern exhibitions of contemporary art," he says. Appropriately, the opening of the new Albertina is marked by a major retrospective of the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch. Entitled "Theme and Variation," it features such masterpieces as The Scream and Madonna. Simultaneously, works from the museum's newly created photographic collection are also on display, plus an exhibition of the work of American artist Robert Longo, whose very Viennese subject is the apartment of Sigmund Freud...
...quite hold up. In the brightly lit, smoky room, perhaps four of the 300 players were men, none in imminent danger of being ogled by young females. Not that there were many of those. Perhaps 10% were under 40. The women, clad in T shirts and jogging pants, munch on fish and chips and sip beer. Hipster jeans? Think hip replacement. It's less Sex and the City, more The Golden Girls. But there have been successful efforts to modernize. Industry officials say they spend tens of millions making bingo halls more youth-friendly and installing state...