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...piece here is “Tart,” the best thing Costello’s written since 1978. It’s constructed atop a beautiful piano line and a fuzzy, walking bassline. Costello has always loved a pun, and he has more fun than he’s had in years: “Is it something you crave?/ ’Cause you say that you only feel bitterness/ Would it kill you to show us a little sweetness?” The song is most impressive for its dynamics: Costello dryly lights into the unnamed...
...social revolutions were born in smoky bars. The Surrealists and Dadaists made each other laugh with assemblages of popular art and everyday artifacts-their productions often look like in-jokes. That's why the R.A. has mounted them in a model of a Paris public urinal, says Dumas-a pun the artists would have appreciated...
Griffin refers to himself as PBHA’s resident Roads Scholar and he has the smarts to back up the pun. Tierney turns onto Interstate 95, which leads into a lesson on road numbers. The details are a bit hazy, but odd-numbered roads run north-south, three digits in a road name means it’s a loop and 93 percent of the country is to the west...
...problem with the Palais de Tokyo's approach: it's fake. The works on display are all in keeping with the bogus trash aesthetic. The most significant is Chinese artist Wang Du's No Comment, a giant wastepaper basket filled with old newspapers and three TV sets, a visual pun on the notion of trash TV. In Taxi Biennale - a garishly airbrushed comic strip presenting the adventures of "Curatorman, the young CEO of the global player ?uratorman Inc." - Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul offers a labored reworking of another hoary old chestnut: the relationship between art and commerce. American Naomi Fisher...
...Sputnik in the title is derived from a character who confuses it with novelist Jack Kerouac (a beatnik), a hero of the heroine who turns out to be quite spacey herself; a pun is also intended since sputnik in Russian means "fellow traveler." Sumire, a compulsive wanna-be writer, is loved by a young male teacher but she herself has an unrequited crush on an older woman. On a trip to a Greek island with her "girlfriend," the sapphic Sumire disappears "just like smoke." And what has started out as a boy-loves-girl-loves-girl love story winds...