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...Paik is the sage and antic father of video as an art form-"the George Washington of the movement," as another experimental artist, Frank Gillette, dubbed him at the end of the '60s. He began by emigrating from his native Seoul in the '50s, first to Tokyo and then to Germany, to study music. In Germany he met Composer John Cage, that perennially controversial guru of the avantgarde, and he was soon busily involved in the multimedia "events" and benignly neo-Dadaist actions of a European artists' group that called itself, for its commitment to change, Fluxus...
Though it has but one monarch, England does not lack for regally imperious voices. Mrs. St. Maugham (Constance Cummings) is a dowager queen who rules a country house, or seems to. She thunders out non sequiturs in the accents of invincibility. She is half dotty, half a sage and always right. As she tells Miss Madrigal (Irene Worth), who has applied for the post of governess to her granddaughter: "Now that there are no subject races, one must be served by the mad, the sick and those who can't take their places in the outside world...
Tempted by Wilson's continuing thirst for his sage counsel the President one night surreptitiously sneaked over to the Justice's Washington apartment for advice on a political appointment--Brandeis, as a Justice proffered his advice quietly but persistently, using Wilson lieutenants as intermediaries. The depth of his feeling on several prominent issues of the day the need for a Zionist homeland and the cause of Progressivism also made behind-the-scenes lobbying for specific policies a temptation Brandeis could not resist...
...missiles might be launched by computer failure. The human minds in charge of today's arsenals will still reject the holocaust as long as there is a fragment of evidence that it doesn't have to happen. There will always be that fragment. Clark Clifford, the Washington sage who has served four Presidents, declares: "It never seriously enters [Presidents'] minds that they really will have to use today's missile forces...
These same critics can find sage advice in the lyrics of "Somewhere Over China," where Buffett comments...