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...drug as the official standard of exchange. To his appetite for low company Seagrave adds an urbane taste for incongruity, a penchant for Edwardian epigrams ("There is a time for fools to come forth, when only bandits can be kings") and a gift for painterly description: Taiwan is a realm of "cliff-lined seascapes and misty peaks that unrolled each dawn from the scroll of night...
...Mysteries of the Organism, which had a hint of hard-core. The following year, the Festival had Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (Brando, butter), As we discoed fearlessly through the 70s we brought in a porno documentary from France (Exhibition) and a Japanese drama (In the Realm of the Senses) that had hard-core sex and a pretty explicit castration. The clear implication: these pictures were chosen to be in the Film Festival, so they...
...that Billy Idol isn't the only bit of '80s cultural flotsam that has floated back lately. The art of that moment is of the moment again. How does it look to us now that the hype has dimmed? Just as it is in music and fashion, in the realm of art, it's a decade that remains a sore spot. It introduced artists whose work has enduring fascination. Cindy Sherman's photographs of herself in the guise of indistinct movie heroines, Jenny Holzer's dream jottings on electronic ticker-tape signs, Elizabeth Murray's shaped canvases--all that arrived...
Much of the ammunition in the battle over Terri Schiavo's fate has been medical language that's fairly new in the public realm. The terms can mean one thing to experts and another thing entirely when wielded by passionate partisans in the debate. On the basis of interviews with specialists in the fields of neurology and palliative care, we offer answers to some of the most perplexing questions...
According to Carter, other reasons for greater female representation at the college level may include the pursuit of more vocational and military jobs by men, the perception of the school as a female-dominated space or even the greater social control exercised by parents over girls in the academic realm...