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...deliciously full; they are self-delighting in their reluctance to turn every stroke of paint into the residue of a moral struggle that may not have really happened; they make difficult performance look easy, and give weight to casualness. Sargent was that kind of painter, and it seems pointless to rebuke him for it--especially at the end of a century whose art he did not for a moment aspire to change...
...That's really it. Any claims that literary theory plays some ethical role form a chorus of pure wind-baggery which wilfully ignores political realities. We don't pay cagers to play basketball behind closed doors, so why should we pay these academics to do something equally inaccessible and pointless? I don't speak out of any ideological grudge and I could care less whether these academics continue to get paid for their self-gratification. But I find the "concerns" raised by Chaouli irresistibly absurd. The academics are a union of tailors trying to knit sewing machines...
...That's really it. Any claims that literary theory plays some ethical role form a chorus of pure wind-baggery which willfully ignores political realities. We don't pay cagers to play basketball behind closed doors, so why should we pay these academics to do something equally inaccessible and pointless? I don't speak out of any ideological grudge and I could care less whether these academics continue to get paid for their self-gratification. But I find the "concerns" raised by Chaouli irresistibly absurd. The academics are a union of tailors trying to knit sewing machines. THOMAS C. MUNRO...
...Observers brand Newseum list arbitrary, pointless exercise, decry glut of similar end-of-century rankings, call Newseum name queer, silly
...pointless to ask Treacy where women are supposed to wear these eccentric chapeaus. The point is to fall in love again with the notion of the hat. "I'm not a crazy designer," says Treacy. "I just like to excite the eye of people about hats." Needless to say, a Treacy creation does not come cheap. But maybe you could pass...