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...elections, giving the party its first two seats in the European Parliament and a corresponding boost to legitimacy and funding. In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders' Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom, PVV) elbowed aside centrist rivals to grab second place in the Netherlands' Euro poll. Around Europe a ragbag of extremist parties, as varied as the countries that produced them yet united by a vehement nationalism that singles out minority groups as a growing threat, scored in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia. Confronted with sliding economies and disappearing jobs, voters kicked...
...Apple (1967), with its warped landscape, stars, parrots and smiling Native American. It demonstrates how designers of psychedelia recycled old kitsch: Art Nouveau squiggles, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Victorian advertisements and early Hollywood movies. Thanks to the invention of DayGlo in the late '40s, artists turned this ragbag into something hallucinatory. This was the art that teenagers peeled off hoardings to hang in their bedrooms...
...Apple (1967), with its warped landscape, stars, parrots and smiling Native American. It demonstrates how designers of psychedelia recycled old kitsch: Art Nouveau squiggles, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Victorian advertisements and early Hollywood movies. Thanks to the invention of DayGlo in the late '40s, artists turned this ragbag into something hallucinatory. This was the art that teenagers peeled off hoardings to hang in their bedrooms. In New Aleph Sanctury (1963-71) by German-born Mati Klarwein, painted panels crawling with multicolored figures form a small room that glows like stained glass. Richard Lindner, a genuine product of '20s Germany whose style...
...story of a ragbag of bizarre, damaged, retired superheroes reunited by the murder of a former teammate, Watchmen is told in fugal, over-lapping plotlines and gorgeous panels rich with cinematic leitmotifs. A work of ruthless psychological realism, it's a landmark in the graphic novel medium. It would be a masterpiece in any. --By Lev Grossman...
...Grimm, it was Gilliam who nearly cracked up, but the strain doesn't show onscreen. The film is a colorful ragbag of fairy-tale tropes, with crones peddling apples, a girl in a red riding hood running into a wolf and a vain queen at her magic mirror. Gilliam, who loathes the "juvenile fantasy" of movie heroism, makes the brothers pleasant but oafish; Headey, in a gorgeous, starmaking turn, is the real hero as the fearless witch Angelika. The movie's sense of humor is high-low in the Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French...