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...from a purely practical standpoint, Donald has written the perfect short history of Lincoln for the Harvard student with no time on his hands and a penchant for random tidbits of American history. For late-night drunken trivial pursuit games or simple juice-box facts style knowledge, Lincoln at Home is absolutely a masterpiece...
...Welty's penchant for intricately presented collections of absolutely random objects is blatantly clear with the crowning jewel of the show. Her "Altered Receipts" is a collection of ingenious doodles on receipts from places like Finagle A Bagel and Banana Republic. Taken individually, each receipt could be construed as the product of intense boredom, yet the line of barely recognizable receipts, each individually framed and centered on white paper, underscores how art can be found anywhere and created from anything, even a receipt from Marshalls...
...What if..." and who had the drive - and thick enough skins - to follow through on their hunches. From the basements and garages of the heartland came the electric guitar, the electric bass, the five-string banjo, the multitrack tape recorder and the pedal steel guitar. Perhaps it's our penchant for excess that leads us to make it louder, faster, different - especially different - and not everyone may see the results as signs of progress. But these brash creations are as accurate road maps of the American soul as can be found in any history book, and immeasurably more...
...These days, while the foreign press fixates on her "impeccable" manicures and her penchant for "power suits," domestic reports focus primarily on Harris's newfound political power - and her longstanding connections to the Bush family...
...These days, while the foreign press fixates on her "impeccable" manicures and her penchant for "power suits," domestic reports focus primarily on Harris's newfound political power - and her longstanding connections to the Bush family...