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Consider, for instance, his portrait of a friend, the English writer Michael Podro. Its title is The Jewish Rider. The man sits in the compartment of a railway carriage. Its upholstery, its projecting headrests and Podro's clothes are rendered in broad swipes of the brush and suggest an unease that is close to violence. The man is on the very edge of his seat, his arm cocked at a peculiar rhetorical angle, his hand on his thigh. We have seen this pose before. It is that of Rembrandt's Polish Rider: the mysterious young man setting out through...
What inspired him to build his low-rider bicycle: I had bought a shirt when I was here for pre-frosh weekend, and it had a guy, a cartoon character, on a low-rider bicycle. He looked so fresh, all swanked out, and it had a really old school flavor...
...List" but from The Raft of the Medusa and The Death of Sardanapalus. Delacroix and Gericault sit on Chereau's shoulders like twin angels of visual excess. (Chereau also includes nods to Rembrandt; Pascal Greggory as Margot's brother Anjou is a dead ringer for Rembrandt's Polish Rider...
What Bosnia shows is not the inherent incompetence or uselessness of the U.N., but rather more like what happens when the rider gets off a tractor and leaves the machine to drive on its own: it goes around in circles. And the member states have not taken the opportunity to fit it with an auto-pilot. They have passed up several opportunities to grant the U.N. a real military capability, a reform that might have allowed it to actually do what should be done in Bosnia...
...Abba, not En Vogue. Marxism these days has appeal "in an odd sort of retro-manner," says Jedediah S. Purdy '97, an editor of Perspective who has studied Marx. "One might use the fashion metaphor that it is equivalent to showing up at a party in your '71 easy rider biker gear. It's a cachet of anachronism...