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...drama about petro-politics, you would need a book the size of The 9/11 Commission Report. Hopscotching across the globe, packing enough plots for half a dozen thrillers, refusing easy judgments of its characters, the film has a worldview that is mature, synoptic, careworn--light-years from the standard Hollywood movie. The closest we can get to pegging Syriana in a phrase: it's smart...
...long hand scroll, The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, is a lively record of his 1689 voyage from Nanjing to Jinshan on the roiling Yangtze River. In the middle of a vast flotilla of two-masted sailing vessels is the Emperor's ship, identified by the yellow standard at the stern and the five-clawed dragon on the side. In a horseshoe-backed chair on the deck, Kangxi sits calmly stroking his beard. For all his achievements in scholarship, empire building and propaganda, the Kangxi Emperor had one major failing. After 60 years in power, he died without naming...
...Average income of readers of Vogue, the fashion standard-bearer...
...only thing that sets him apart from the pack, causing Loc to look more and more like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of the G-Unit behemoth. He also nearly spoils “Things Change,” an otherwise decent song that goes a little beyond your standard gangsta fare. But while he seems to have a hint of personality, Loc fails to diverge at all from the standard gangsta mold. Here is where I am supposed to segue into a damning invective against 50 and his crew, about how they are ruining rap music and unfairly monopolizing...
...gallery. Everything is “straight”; printed on glossy paper, fore- and background are in focus, the lighting is favorable, and the camera still. According to Senf, who is also a graduate student in art history at Boston University, Adams helped make straight photography become the standard for art photography today.Oceans of ink have and will be spilled about whether that straightness and literalness should diminish Adams’ claim to be the greatest American photographer. Yet Adams remains the quintessential American photographer because he took photography’s power of honest reproduction to the places...