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...book was called Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid--Gödel being the Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel; Escher, the fantastical Dutch artist M.C. Escher; and Bach, the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The extraordinary mind that braided these three figures together in one book belonged to one Douglas Hofstadter, a physics Ph.D. who was only 34 years old at the time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for Gödel, Escher, Bach, and it went on to become a cult classic that influenced a generation of thinkers. Since then Hofstadter has published on numerous subjects...
...last battle, Leonidas gets an enemy arrow in each tit, and soon he's Xerxes' pin cushion. The image may remind you of Saint Sebastian in a medieval painting, or Toshiro Mifune in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. To me it recalled some of the more extreme photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe...
...citizens through a vast system of spies and security controls. With the help of the Stasi secret police forces, the GDR monitors the country for potential disloyalty. “The Lives of Others†captures human compassion at its most sophisticated level, as Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch), a famous East German writer, is placed under 24-hour watch, with Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) as the lead spy. But in hopes of uncovering Dreyman’s disloyalties, the snitch finds his own. Wiesler’s intimate viewing into the literal lives of others opens...
...Stasi--East Germany's internal spy network--is in full fester, keeping watch on artists and political dissidents, forcing many into obeisance or jail, silence or suicide. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), a mousy Stasi captain, plants bugs in the home of chic playwright Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler and his coarser superiors have motives as complex as they are nasty: to please a party boss, to tease out scenarios of voyeuristic lust and, well, because they can. Wiesler has another reason to spy and pry: he's good...
Here at Harvard, I see a climate of hatred for country music enthusiasts. People here flock to the treasonous saccharine-pop of Belle and Sebastian and the narcoleptic groaning of Iron and Wine, without even considering Big and Rich or Brooks and Dunn, both venerable duos in their own right...