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...become blurs of unified motion, eliciting the pleasures of movement and the sense of becoming lost in a secret world. By the end of "NST '04" it becomes clear that the zombies were never the point. Instead, using comix' unique tools of visual queues, it reads as a complex portrait of a budding relationship, particularly those private moments that bond people together...
...forget the '80s as much as possible," says Robert Longo. "I was a total egomaniac, a lunatic child at that point." Early in the decade, Longo became famous for large-scale realistic drawings of business-suited men and women in lurching, heaving postures--a not-bad portrait of the young middle classes being buffeted by their times. Midway through the decade, taste changed, and a cooler brand of conceptual art came into favor. His star plummeted. "A lot of us grew up in public," he says. "In a weird way that often means you have to fail in public...
...teachers' union began running ads against the Governor in January. Schwarzenegger's favorable ratings have dipped from the stratospheric to 55%, more or less. And while the Dems' knee-jerk support for the unions is a perennial portrait in cowardice, Schwarzenegger's proposals do avoid one crucial area of reform. "If he really wanted to lead with moral authority," says California state treasurer Phil Angelides, a Democrat running for Governor in 2006, "He would be asking everyone to make sacrifices. But he has been totally unwilling to ask those with means to give a nickel of their resources. We need...
...rest of the book is a glowing portrait of the President. Perhaps all we should expect from the man who served with such distinction in one of the hardest public jobs in politics. But Fleischer witnessed sweeping history. Surely there is something to be gleaned from being so close to the center of such drama. We don't need secrets, just insight. No luck. Even the behind-the-scenes moments he recounts have an off the rack quality: Bush is strong, resolute and likes making decisions...
...traditional, broad-based liberal arts education in lieu of the narrow, overly specific “approaches to knowledge” introduced in esoteric classes like Literature and Arts C-42, “Constructing the Samurai” and Literature and Arts B-31, “The Portrait.” No argument here—undergrads have wasted too much time learning about the Swing Era and too little understanding the foundations of the Western canon...