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...1940s, partly by way of his contact with the Surrealists in wartime exile in New York City, especially Andr Breton and Roberto Matta. Gorky had been borrowing Surrealist imagery for years, and he flourished in their company. It was through Matta that he renewed his interest in the Surrealist notion of automatism, a means of relinquishing conscious control of the hand to let it discover images that flowed from the unconscious. With that, some key turned inside him, allowing him to translate impressions of nature and the body and childhood memories of Armenia into an abstract language of longing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arshile Gorky: The Shape Shifter | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...farce of this notion can only be assuaged if one remembers that Chavez is the world leader who, infamously, cornered President Obama at the Summit of the Americas this spring to give him a book about foreign (read: American) exploitation in the Americas. Chavez, in his personal world, has the right to put the American president on the spot like this. He also was justified, presumably, in writing, “For Obama, with warm regards,” inside the book, because though the two are close enough that Chavez might give him the book uninvited, Obama...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Chavez Can’t Shun the Spotlight | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...notion of what he calls ‘artscience’ is, of course, a metaphor for what engineers do—whether it is tackling global poverty and energy or re-imagining everyday activities like eating a bar of chocolate. Creativity has no borders...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New 'Lab at Harvard' Opens | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...light of the House of Representatives’s passage of universal health-care legislation on Nov. 7, Rove’s analysis looks particularly foolish. The notion that the results of two local races constitute a national referendum on the president’s agenda is preposterous and is not in line with the conventional wisdom for off-year elections...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: All Politics is Local | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...protections, such as those for consumers who have pre-existing medical conditions. The risk is at least as great for Republicans. "The small-bore, crabbed and nearly meaningless reform plan they produced in the House after months of nothing but complaining about the Democrats just reinforces the notion that they are a Party of No," said Norm Ornstein, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the House, Can Health Reform Survive the Senate? | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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