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...changed my relationship with my children," says George Egan, a Pittsburgh, Pa., investment banker, of the fallout from the attacks. He and his wife Annie have two sets of twins, ages 3 and 6. "When I go upstairs at night to check on them I now feel somehow less confident in my ability to keep them safe. I try hard to keep them out of harm's way. But now there is a new element to their reality, over which I have no control...
...selfish, amoral popular culture. The period has become as instantly stereotyped as the '60s: just replace acid with half-caf lattes, Charles Manson with Gary Condit, and Woodstock with Survivor. It's a response that is both self-loathing (smacking of the Falwellian idea that we somehow brought disaster on our frivolous selves) and comforting (if so much was taken from us, shouldn't we get a sense of moral superiority in return?). It's also, in one important way, wrong. Of course our collective near-death experience changed many of us. But if our popular artists know anything about...
...funnier, smarter, and will prove more memorable. In deadpan prose, Davis turns philosophical snippets into fiction, with moving results. It is rare for a writer to challenge the tradition of storytelling and still be a pleasure to read. Davis' stories are as clear as children's books and somehow inevitable, as if she has written down what we were all on the verge of thinking ourselves...
...psychodrama. In another gallery space, five child-like sculptures are gathered in a circle. With their primary colors and beatific expressions, Yoshitomo Nara's Little Pilgrims (Nightwalkers), 1998, could be the Teletubbies?until one notices they are swaddled in bandages. These enigmatic figures are portraits of "a generation that somehow lost its way and is facing an uncertain future," says curator Kent, "a damaged generation." In this sense, "NEO-TOKYO" is very much the art of post-traumatic healing...
...gone in the extra period, Kolarik fired a hard shot at Underhill from the slot. Underhill made the save, but was unable to hold onto the puck, prompting a mad rush to the net by Kolarik, Packard and Nowak. In a confusion of pushing and shoving bodies, Nowak somehow managed to find the puck and slipped it passed Underhill for the game-winner...