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...Western Desert Art Movement, and its fertile offspring. Recently described by former Aboriginal Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone as "Australia's greatest cultural treasure," it is an industry conservatively worth $A200 million a year (see following story). But its complexity and dynamism have avoided capture. "It's a paradox," says Perkins. "It's the oldest continuous cultural tradition in the world as well as one of the most exciting contemporary art movements that we'll ever...
...recent events. Surely Mansfield disapproved of the Faculty’s (i.e. the “more wise”) pushing out President Summers over the objections of the students (i.e. the “less wise”)? We appear then to be faced with a double paradox: occasionally, the “less wise” can be wiser than the “more wise,” and occasionally, one of the “more wise,” indeed one of the wisest of the “more wise...
...understand why people are excited about this phenomenon. However, as the migration to high-definition TVs and cable boxes speeds up, these products must evolve fast. I made the mistake of trying to play an HD broadcast, and everything froze. It's a paradox, because the earliest of adopters probably already watch a lot of HDTV. To put it bluntly: if you're recording the current season of Sopranos or 24 on a high-def cable DVR, you'll have to record it simultaneously in standard definition to watch it on Sony's LocationFree TV or the snazzier Slingbox from...
Wolfe set out to solve the paradox of the modern Ivy League overachiever: Why do the country’s top performers cap weekdays of hard work with nights of binge drinking and commitment-free physical intimacy? But he failed to do much more than solidify the term “hook-up” in pop parlance. Viswanathan actually offers an answer: the college generation’s reckless profligacy, she suggests, is the result of the same goal-directed purposefulness that has produced its academic success...
...there's the double paradox: the clandestine Opus Dei is opening up while The Da Vinci Code's publicity-savvy makers are clamming...