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...space, their movement chopped into small progressive stages, are the direct ancestors (with cubes or grids substituted for the live subjects) of structures like LeWitt's Incomplete Open Cubes, 1974, which squeezes more variations out of a six-sided figure than you might have thought possible. And yet this solemn undertaking has more the air of a stubborn exercise than an imaginative act. Indeed, there are times when, as in The Location of a Line, 1975 (in the catalog but not included in the Whitney incarnation of the show), the written instructions sound like a mad, pedantic math teacher droning...
...those scholars undertaking the sensitive task of looking into the events of 1915, the solemn declarations of foreign parliaments are anything but welcome. Halil Berktay, professor at Istanbul's Sabanci University describes the French Parliament as being "incredibly stupid" by simply fuelling intolerance on both sides. The action, Berktay believes, has strangled a growing dialogue between historians in Turkey and abroad. He himself speaks from painful experience after having been the target of what he describes as a McCarthyite witch-hunt after an interview in which he expressed the "open secret" that Turkish irregular units attacked Armenian civilians as they...
...President's day, and he had a sermon to give. Bush addressed a citizenry with differences so deep that sometimes "it seems we share a continent but not a country. We do not accept this, and will not allow it," he declared, and issued his solemn pledge: "I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity." He admitted that he rode in on a storm; it had rained all through election night, and it rained on his ascension, so he called on the angel that "rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm," all but acknowledging that...
...real problems. The reader knew him, knew his fears, sympathized with his sense of inferiority and alienation. When Charlie Brown first confessed, "I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel," he was speaking for people everywhere in Eisenhower's America, especially for a generation of solemn, precociously cynical college students, who "inhabited a shadow area within the culture," the writer Frank Conroy recalled. They were the last generation to grow up, as Schulz had, without television, and they read Charlie Brown's utterances as existential statements - comic strip koans about the human condition...
...solemn album, and although not religious, its soulful vocals and reggae-inflected grooves have the quiet power of prayer... Just as prayers are ultimately about love, this CD is suffused with that emotion as well...