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...force to be reckoned with and demonstrated that great journalism could help shape a national agenda. But he wasn't all high seriousness; if you spoke to those who worked with Oz during his time at Newsweek in the 1960s and 1970s, what came across above all was his sheer sense of the fun of it all, epitomized by an intolerance for cant and MEGO ("my eyes glaze over") prose. He constantly searched for great writing and great writers and displayed a puckish irreverence that recognized that readers needed to be entertained as well as informed...
...money is on the screen, and so are his prickliness and passion. Tender, angry, unafraid of mixing comedy and sentiment, Lee's pictures bulge with so many ideas, they're hard to contain. Sometimes he holds them together through sheer nerve, as in the loopy racial satire Bamboozled; in other films, like Do the Right Thing, the story eventually explodes in the moviegoer's face. All the audience can expect is to be lectured, hassled and entertained...
...scenes on occasion. Why am I admitting my obsession with these blatantly unintelligent shows in a widely circulated newspaper accessible to my peers? Because I think it’s important for readers to realize that I’m qualified to make the following statement: in terms of sheer base enjoyment, “Secret Life” is in fact superior to all the aforementioned programs.What makes “Secret Life” a pleasurable success is that it is in every way a failure. If viewers were trying to take the show seriously, they would find...
...work since his death in 1991. Their bodies are clearly defined. Their hands, feet, chests—any limb capable of evoking power—are elongated and disproportionate to the rest of the body. Their posture is stalwart, their eyes blankly intimidating. The emphasis is on sheer brawn. One could easily be overwhelmed by the amount of testosterone that radiates from much of Wein’s work. Even the mythological women in his sculptures trade soft, sensual curves for prominent chests, wide shoulders, and a Spartan-like presence. And yet while his man is no Adonis...
...orchestrated and very complex project,” says Daron J. Manoogian, the Harvard Art Museums’ spokesman. The Fogg has over 260,000 works in its collection, though this number includes every ancient coin and paper drawing. Still, it’s easy to understand why the sheer number of objects to be moved presents a logistical challenge to the renovators. Some of the artwork requires many layers of special packaging to ensure their safety during the move, and most are placed in crates before they are transported. “It is a very daunting task...