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...dozen shows' worth of provocative banter. (Its first season generated buzz with a fierce battle on race between a black writer and a moody, white aspiring folksinger.) A ratings bonanza for MTV, the artificially authentic TRW convinced network execs that the genre had commercial brawn, and set the stage for the first network reality megahit, CBS' Survivor - and the endless stream of shows that followed...
...cohesiveness at the core was never quite the same. Waters seized creative control and reportedly threatened not to release 1979's The Wall unless Wright quit; he did, although he eventually came back to the band he loved. Even though Wright was happiest at the side of the stage, it offended his principles that Waters demanded the center. At one point, the two went 14 years without speaking...
Ever since Palin took the stage, Obama's aides have seemed especially clueless about how to react to her and almost blind to her cultural power as a middle-class mom with five kids and an NRA card. They seemingly can't decide whether to attack her as a book-banning Bush-of-the-North extremist who brought partisanship and cronyism to small-town government, dismiss her as a provincial novice in over her head, brand her as a double-talker who opposes pork only when it isn't hers, or simply ignore her. According to a TIME poll, McCain...
...blueprint of clean shapes and echoes the white and gray squares of Mondrian’s piece, but it presents them through painted industrial and mechanical objects that are depicted as fully three-dimensional. Finally, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s “Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator),” a machine made out of aluminum, steel, and other materials, manifests the geometric, industrial quality of Sheeler’s painting in real space. The exhibit makes connections that are more explicit and traditional, such as the juxtaposition of the Picasso and the Braque...
...handful at the band as they sang, as if to the beat. Days later, my embarrassed coworker un-embarrassed herself and informed me that Zhong Nan Hai is a popular brand of cigarettes and that everyone in the band smokes them, which is why everyone throws them on stage. Coming from a place where cigarettes are $8 a pack, I was suspicious.I eventually picked up Carsick Cars’ debut album, cheekily titled “Carsick Cars (Enjoy Our Panda Music).” As I read the liner notes for, “Zhong...