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Moreover, recent Biennials have had to respond somehow to the provocation of a superheated art market. Even if gallery owners and collectors have gotten a little nervous lately, whistling past the twin graveyards of housing and stocks, money remains a force to be reckoned with. Month after month, deluxe aesthetic merchandise--the stainless-steel jewelry sculpture by Jeff Koons, those naughty-nurse paintings by Richard Prince--keeps rolling out of auction houses like so many hood ornaments...
...survivethis tempest, but no such luck forStephen King’s name, written in a shinytypeface—it seems to be sinking into theocean. So we know there’s a storm and anisland—I guess the mystery lies with theorange picnic basket that somehow alsosurvives the storm.Memory, by Philippe GrimbertA black and white photograph depictsa mystery person, pail in hand, walkingaway from the potential reader over acovered bridge towards a sunny day. Thebook’s cover offers extensive metaphoricalpossibilities: the light at the end ofthe tunnel! Traversing the bridge of life!Receding into...
...formal courtlanguage—Haruko abandons her: “Shewas not the first to run into harsh limits;I, of course, had been there beforeher. But she was the first to innocentlybelieve—and who could blame her, havingreceived my solemn promise—thatshe might somehow be protected fromthe implacable forces set against her.”The whole novel suffers fromSchwartz’s lack of engagement with thecentral character. He doesn’t feel theneed to empathize with her. He playsaround with the facts of her life withoutever assembling them into a character.His attitude...
...witty retort prepared for any gripe that comes their way, and never fail to note their privileged perspective of the self-indulgence and egomania of us Harvard students (excluding themselves). They direct their patronizing misanthropy at campus “brats,” and come out looking somehow worse—brattier—than their targets...
...that hasn't been surfaced during this election. It has been our choice not to bring it up because my attitude has been that this should be a campaign about our policy positions and where we want to take the country but if she starts asserting that somehow I'm not ready and that one of the reasons that the Democrats or superdelegates should not vote for me is because we don't know enough about him, or there may be things in his past or his character that make him vulnerable to Republican attack, then I think...