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...spook dodge. He's living on dream street," and willing shell out big bucks to square his conscience with a dead girl. But Stan's downfall comes when he meets Lilith, a comely shrink who's too smart for his cons. Taking him as a lover, she makes him paint her toenails and tortures him with psychobabble. Because it's a "goddamn stinking slaughterhouse of a world," Stan eventually finds himself hooked on hooch, hitching boxcars and heading back to the carny...
...excited at the prospect of seeing the much-heralded Yao in person. He has been an integral part of the Rockets’ offense, complementing guards Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley and giving the team its first viable inside presence since another foreign export, Hakeem Olajuwon, dominated the paint...
...novel begins in pre-World War II Ceylon, when the 14-year-old Lakshmi leaves her family and moves to rural Kuantan with her new husband, Ayah. Lakshmi bears six children, and the narrative voice soon jumps from Lakshmi to her children, who paint a divergent and complex portrait of their mother. Daughter Anna recounts how Lakshmi stood up to the Japanese invaders, started a business and hid her earnings, coated with bird droppings, at the top of a palm tree. "The Japanese made us all very resourceful," she relates, "but Mother was an undefeatable force." Sevenese, Lakshmi...
...would seem that Harvard is still dicking around with the conflict between the First Amendment and Puritanism (News, “Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate”, Feb. 24). I am reminded of one generation of (then) Radcliffe undergraduates being instructed to paint out each erect penis on the Greek amphora in the Fogg Collections, only to have the next generation instructed to restore them...
...work of artists of all ages and career stages, one being "the interrogation of the everyday." As well as Ataman's flower fanatic and Yokomizo's Strangers, there is Rachel Whiteread's plaster casting of the inside of a flat and the space under a staircase. Margaret Barron paints tiny cityscapes on adhesive tape that are stuck on handy surfaces somewhere near the actual locations. Several are sited in the Tate environs, at risk of being peeled off or fly-posted over. Young guns Nick Relph and Oliver Payne first made a splash with video works showing the city from...