Word: neos
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...Humor is central to many of the works, often as a neo-surrealist celebration of the absurd. Edward Ruscha's can of Spam rocketing across a white canvas and Colin Self's Leopard-skin Nuclear Bomber - No. 2 cannot fail to evoke a smile. Conversely, Roy Lichtenstein manages to take the humor out of the comic-book genre, reducing the style to its purely graphic elements...
...course, you don't have to look far to find groups of Europeans - Austrian neo-Nazis, Serbian warlords, ethnic Albanian guerillas, English football hooligans - who still cling to more restrictive, and virulent, notions of identity and nationhood. But for just as many, such boundaries no longer signify anything. Sascha Pichler, 27, was born in Salzburg, Austria to parents of Austrian, Czech, Russian and Serb descent. She spent her childhood in Malaysia, the U.S., Portugal and Germany. After earning degrees from Oxford and the London School of Economics, she moved to Brussels. She rarely sits still: since January she has been...
...election will also gauge extremist sentiment in the country: the ultra-right-wing Republicans are on the ballot. Because of the country's Nazi past and continuing attacks by neo-Nazi skinheads, public support for far-right organizations is closely monitored in Germany. What's more, ballots for the Republicans are generally regarded as protest votes that would normally go to the more centrist cdu. In the 1996 election, the Republicans received 9.1% of the votes in Baden-Württemberg, but the prognosis for this year is just 5%. "I think this year the Republicans will do less well...
...mission: To pursue and interview hip-hop mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs after his not-guilty verdict on gun-possession and bribery charges. My lead: I'm told that he might be checking out neo-soul diva Jill Scott at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night...
Combining elements of post-1970s punk, synthesizer pop and neo-psychedelia...