Word: sloth
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...Sloth Ray, Picabia and Duchamp all earnestly educated their audience in seeing new ways for art to be art, while at the same time insulting that audience with attention-grabbing laziness and insouciance. They socialized and threw parties, and helped the rich collectors who were intrigued by them to choose the right works by the right established figures - Matisse, Picasso, Brancusi and so on - to improve their collections. But they pretended they couldn't be bothered to compete with such masters...
...affair.) But for years, Duchamp, who lived in a modest, $40-a-month apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, told his friends he'd given art up for chess and philosophical writing. He said he believed in "masterly inactivity." Indeed, he, Picabia and Ray shared a talent for cerebral sloth. They all thought up endless word games that boil down to jokes about sex. This too was art. The Tate Modern exhibition is dense with doodles and scraps full of dark joie de vivre...
...mere well-intentioned, innocuous idealism, but potentially a cause of harm—not, thankfully, to the benighted peoples the campaigners ostensibly seek to help—but to their own society.This self-congratulatory student activism, typified by such officious petition-writing, fosters a pernicious habit of moral sloth and validated pride. These bad habits, easily formed and even more easily justified, make our own politics more bitter, more boastful, and less humane. Unsurprisingly, these self-styled moral paragons select an investment bank to impugn—a target fit for the coward or the sycophant too fearful...
...taking parenting classes. Nothing in “Gimme More” seems either necessary or desirable. The footage looks less like a final cut than something K-Fed chopped up in iMovie while the kids were asleep in the car. Britney’s characterization as a slumping, sloth-like pole dancer seems eerily prophetic. While above-the-waist framing and strobe lighting keep Britney from looking too haggard, it’s undeniable that the she’s looked better. Historically, a certain amount of Britney’s appeal rested on the sheer hilarity...
...best-known of Indian wildlife reserves, Corbett encompasses more than 190 square miles (500 sq km) and is named after a British big-game hunter who shot several man-eating tigers in the vicinity before turning conservationist. Visitors pour into Corbett for the fauna, which includes tigers, elephants and sloth bears, and also for the picturesque beauty of the mountainous region of Kumaon, where the park is located. There are several accommodation choices available, from traditional jungle lodges to modern villas. www.corbett-national-park.com...