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...February as part of Black History Month. But they also pop up occasionally on Turner Classic Movies and indie channels, and they're available in many video stores. The movies are worth tracking down. Made on a frayed shoestring by Poverty Row grindmasters, these pictures can't compete in polish or, often, simple competence with Hollywood fare. Modern viewers are likely to giggle at the films' technical flaws, groan at outmoded racial attitudes on display. But their very na?vet? makes them more persuasive as reflections of the black-white zeitgeist of the 30s and 40s. Art did not intervene; intended...
There's also a sense of history that rarely appears in American comix. Jacek Fras mixes collage with silly cartoon characters in a story that takes place during the Polish resistance against the Nazis. Jurcan & Cvek's "Condemned Ideas" examines the failure of ideologies from Fascism to Communism to Capitalism. But the most unifying trait turns out to be a kind of dark, absurdist sensibility. In Goran Feniks' "A Weird Story," a man takes care of some paperwork while plummeting to his death from an airplane explosion. There's ample amounts of satire and schadenfruede, but little humor...
Sachs is best known as an advisor to governments in the developing world and in the creation of Polish and Russian economic policies...
RESIGNED. ARCHBISHOP JULIUSZ PAETZ, 67, high-ranking Polish prelate; following an "inconclusive" Vatican investigation into accusations, denied by Paetz, that he had molested clerics; in Rome. "Not everyone understood my genuine openness and spontaneity toward people," he said...
...stories tumble out spontaneously and unrehearsed. He ignores specific questions in favor of animal rights discourses, rhetoric about changing the world, borderline flirtatious remarks about beauty and fingernail polish and gushing adoration of Cornel West. Brother Blue snaps his fingers, speaks in rhythm, drops to whispers, scrunches his face on the verge of tears, stands up to “jive and dance.” His continuous energy is an imposing, persistent vibe in the room. Especially when he’s asking “Do you think you’re beautiful?” Also, when...