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...coping with the aging process is to do things you did when you were young: table-tennis, birthday parties, sing-alongs. Anxieties about genuine nostalgia have resulted in the avid manufacture of camp, so that in a world where things are born old, we can at least have some fun. One reason for the popularity of Young British Artists in the past couple of years is that they help us rethink our affection for pure camp by asking a simple but all-important question--is it possible for a work of art to be just plain weird? Can art cultivate...
...married singer-songwriters Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan, plus bassist James McNew--turn down the amps, shut the garage door and head up to the living quarters. Fifteen remarkable tracks later, we've learned that the adult love song--gentle, small, intimate--is very much alive. Kaplan and Hubley sing about love imperfect, illuminating the tiny lies that keep couples apart and the humor and empathy that draw them back together...
...Pope. Joseph is reluctant to indulge the "witnessing" common among certain Protestant services. When a woman talks about a vision of angels, or a man talks of being reborn, he cautions against self-centeredness and says fealty to Jesus is the central point of prayer. Asked to sing Ave Maria, he resists at first but then hushes a room with a sonorous baritone. A woman mutters, "I don't care who he says he is--you only learn to sing that way from nuns...
...just for people to look at, and be great treats for people's imaginations. But I think it is a good thing to be doing with my life. Sometimes I wish I was a writer or a musician because that's much more immediate, especially for somebody who can sing or has a beautiful voice. Nobody ever worries about what a piece of music means or why they wrote it. Usually they're allowing it to play on their senses and their encounter with the music. While I think contemporary art, especially in England, is treated very suspiciously...
...season when smiling choruses of admissions officers, tour guides and sundry administrators begin to sing of Harvard's virtues, the foremost of which, recently, is the diversity of its students and graduates. The College, they croon, produces poets and priests, musicians and physicians, athletes and artists. But nowhere is this resplendent diversity so evident as in the difference between two of its most prominent and successful alma libres, Al Gore '69 and Alan L. Keyes...