Word: papered
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...beauty, then aesthetic dimension in trash.”The strength of “Examined Life” is that it also allows philosophers less public than West or Žižek to bring their ideas to life. Butler, for example, known for being difficult on paper, emerges here even more engaging than West. A thinker in feminism, queer theory, and ethics, she shows up sporting a baggy leather jacket and an equally loose style of talking. Accompanied by Sunaura Taylor, the filmmaker’s disabled sister, Butler strolls around San Francisco considering traditional Western conceptions...
...large pieces of paper face one another in artist Sanford Biggers’ studio at Harvard. On one wall hangs the sketch of a cross-section of a slave ship (“I have no idea what that’s about,” Biggers says). On the other, a piece of brown wrapping paper lists some of Biggers’ current projects: a multi-venue installation in Philadelphia that will trace locations from the Underground Railroad, a sculpture and floor design for a new high school in the Bronx, a series of dance vignettes based...
...entries about moments (“1915, winter, Zurich”), concepts (“audience”), and people (“Tristan, Tzara”) burst with the raw energy he demands. Dada artists themselves provide most of the fun. Tzara once unraveled a roll of toilet paper marked “Merde” to end a performance and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven wore a birdcage as a hat to parties. Codrescu amplifies their liveliness with his tight, brisk sentences: “In Sparta, bored out of her mind, the baroness sneaked off to Cincinnati...
...impassioned lyrics of Joe Strummer and the infectious hooks of Buzzcocks singles. Their first album, “More Parts Per Million,” anticipated the more recent insurgence of lo-fi punk (No Age, Times New Viking, Wavves) with surprising acuity, trading in primitive pop riffs and paper-thin anthems, all wrapped in a sheet of feedback. The difference between the Thermals and those bands is that feedback was less a symbiote than the sound of growing pains. By the band’s second album, “Fucking A,” the outfit was tighter...
...certainly preliminary) probe into the collapse of a six-story apartment building in L'Aquila that crumbled to the ground, killing 26 of its 75 residents. A seemingly identical building right next door remained intact, none of its residents even injured. "They planned it in the wrong place," the paper concluded of the devastated building, which was built in the early 1980s...