Word: perfectible
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...money to the dead truly is nonsensical and counterproductive. It is a difficult issue to resolve, especially when, as was the case last year, a book written by a dead man was probably the most deserving of awards, and I don’t pretend to have a perfect solution. To choose to disqualify anyone based upon extra-literary considerations opens the door for all sorts of petty politicking—something the literary realm definitely needs no more of. However, the case is that, in the cash-strapped world of letters, it is more important than ever that...
...Fifty On Our Foreheads,” this tendency to wax melancholic is superseded by pulsing snare and bass, which transitions from an unassuming introduction to an uplifting finale. Opening with a soothing interplay between the swirling tones of the omnipresent synthesizer and pacing drums as the perfect complement to McVeigh’s initially understated tonalities, the track suddenly progresses into an exhilarating and momentous thrill ride that awakens the listener from what has otherwise been a rather lethargic and long-winded reverie on morbidity. Alas, a song that succeeds both lyrically and musically is a rarity. This discrepancy...
Still, I think the Fujitsu "FLEPia" brings us - the people who make magazines, newspapers, books, TV shows and movies - one step closer to fixing our badly broken business model. (The perfect media device also needs to be able to do video.) Once we've got the All-Media Device, we're back in business. In the meantime, the migration from the Web to the post-Web world - where content is easier to consume on new mobile devices, but no longer free - is fully underway. (Read about the new iPod Shuffle...
...French have pronounced The Kindly Ones (the phrase refers to the Furies of Greek myth) a modern masterpiece. In the U.S., the reception has been mixed at best; the New York Times called it "an odious stunt." That it is not. It's far from perfect: Littell has that maddening Continental contempt for paragraph breaks, and he details Max's neuroses with dismaying thoroughness--Max is gay and obsessed with sodomy, which he used to practice with his twin sister, for whom he still yearns (lusty twins being the last resort of the lazy novelist). Above all, there...
Each of Kentridge's film projects generates suites of charcoal drawings, most of them descendants of Goya's desolate readings of human affairs. Charcoal is exactly the right medium for Kentridge. Burnt carbon has a gravity all its own, and it's perfect for Kentridge's blasted landscapes, crowds of eternal refugees and monsters that could be the potbellied Will to Power. His world comes in shades of black, white and gray, with just occasional flecks of red or streams of bright blue that suggest water--a cool comfort against affliction but also the stuff of tears. In Felix Crying...