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...Take Maliha Hashemi's Regrets with its four roughly outlined, grey human shapes overarched by black. Like her other works, the 24-year-old explains, the painting "depicts my sympathy towards the deprived women of my country." Yet it does so with a positive spin: the top third of the canvas is dominated by a horizon of cheerful stripes in many colors. Hashemi hopes art will become a "means by which women can advance themselves." At least it has been one for her and her fellow-graduates: all of the women consider themselves full-time artists, and some teach...
...Tennis, for some help, and found out how wrong I was. "They don't worry about the rubber falling off the paddle," he explained. Fox said the pros apply glue to the paddles and use its tackiness to their advantage. "The effect is one of increasing the speed and spin when you contact the ball...
...natural for performing. Oddly, his first LP was the jazz-inflected, discursive Presenting Isaac Hayes. Not until Hot Buttered Soul in 1969 did he connect with the public, and even this album contained several cuts that ran 8 to 10 mins. He'd take a Burt Bacharach song and spin it into soul-improv infinity, or begin his version of Jimmy Webb's By the Time I Get to Phoenix with an 8-min. monologue. Whether singing or speaking, the man could hold an audience. Maybe it was the cover photo, dominated by the top of Hayes' shaved head...
...That "Lafayette, we are here" spin was more than welcome in 1976, America's bicentennial year. It is also true that the internationalization and democratization of the wine business that almost immediately followed was probably a nice breath of fresh air in what had been a tightly sealed cellar. But still, the lack of authentic surprise and eccentricity in the story and its characters, the sense that everyone concerned with the picture (possibly excepting Rickman, who projects an unwelcoming sullenness that may not be funny but is at least weirdly human) is eagerly looking for the easy...
...this fall. It's a clever move; it simultaneously paints McCain as a brute while making him think twice about hitting back--the harder McCain hits, after all, the more it will look as though he is stirring up fake controversy. Too many reporters have bought that spin, and that's a problem. McCain doesn't need reporters to fall out of love with Obama. But he does need to be allowed to make the case against the Democrat...