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...Roman numerals, but the Intern had little desire to. The Intern ordered another croissant from a waitress who told him to cut the crappy insincere panderings when he asked if she was having a nice morning. The Intern's companion looked up from a movie review by Stephen Schiff that he'd been reading for the last hour and a half. Schiff had come up with some good lines during the 1970s, too, but a lot of them sounded like Pauline Kael. His review of Blow Out had already hit the two-mile mark and showed no signs of flagging...
Here, read some Stephen Schiff," said his companion. "It'll take you mind of things for a couple of hours...
...leader of the opposition is Crested Butte's paraplegic mayor, an émigré from Aspen who likes to style himself as simply W (no period) Mitchell. (He was born William John Schiff III in Philadelphia, but adopted his stepfather's name.) For the past four years, the wheelchair-bound Mitchell, 38, who was badly burned in a motorcycle accident ten years ago and paralyzed in a plane crash four years later, has tirelessly attacked AMAX and questioned its assurances that the mine will do no harm. Noting that up to 20,000 tons of ore will...
...fell in with the idea that Nazism could, by some train of coarse free association, be traced back to German transcendentalism. So this show, in all its variety and unfamiliarity, cannot help instructing its audience. Its range is wide (and brilliantly discussed in the catalogue by Art Historians Gert Schiff and Stephan Waetzoldt...
...might come closest to a definition of their aspirations," writes Schiff in his catalogue essay on early 19th century artists like Friedrich, Runge and Carl Gustav Carus, "by stating that 'longing' (Sehnen) was the first and almost the last word of German romanticism." These painters were men of exceptional seriousness, their sense of mission verged on the priestly, and they saw art as a powerful means of philosophic speech. As Schiff rightly remarks, one dictum of the writer Friedrich Schlegel appears to summarize their hopes: "Only he can be an artist who has a religion...