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...Another band of Chinese artists has pushed boundaries by depicting the lost souls trying to find their place in a rapidly developing society. Surrounded by the capitalist trappings that China's leaders hope will sate a politically repressed populace - chic clothes, cell phones, fast-food wrappers - these lonely figures wear blank or artificially cheery expressions. "As a child, my classmates and I sang revolutionary songs, and we had to write Mao's expressions over and over," says 43-year-old Zeng Fanzhi, whose portrait of a masked man with a cauterized visage sold for $1.63 million in London last month...
...export revenue, natural gas sales are the lifeline of the Burmese junta. But Burma’s gas income does not trickle down to the country’s 52 million people, more than 30 percent of whom live below the poverty line. Rather, these petrodollars sate the junta leaders’ appetite for luxury goods and lavish mansions. More disturbingly, according to the Burma Campaign UK, nearly half of the government’s revenue goes to the military. These dollars paid for the guns that were used last week to shoot down Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists...
...those who disagree; who don’t understand my adoration for the truly printed word; who believe the news is better in binary code: I’m sorry I wasted your time, but you can sate yourself with the fact that I didn’t waste any paper...
...studio-slick that it will probably see as much live performance as past hit “Perfect Drug”: that is to say, none. And while a couple of tracks—like “Survivalism”—will help to sate the hunger of those seeking another “Downward Spiral,” the album as a whole is slightly more reminiscent of early, “Pretty Hate Machine” Nails. “Year Zero” is clearly trying to tell a story, but at its close...
...shift. We put away the food taken out during the previous shift, cleaned dishes, took turns scurrying to various Harvard Square shops such as Tealuxe that donate leftover food, and offered companionship to the shelter’s occupants. We also made sure to sate the appetites of ravenous late arrivals—grilled cheese sandwiches were particularly popular items that night. And hunched over a sizzling frying pan flipping grilled cheeses, I can honestly say that I was having fun. At 11p.m., the overnight volunteers strolled in and it was time to depart...