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...dropped jaw or two. People often act offended, as if it’s personally injurious to them that this freak had to ruin the seemingly innocuous prime time-themed discussion. Then come the questions, demands that I explain myself. My reason for not having TV is not straightforward; it can’t be chalked up to religion or a hermetic lifestyle. Finally, my companions’ dissatisfaction with my explanation produces an awkward silence. People look at me like I’ve said too much, as though I’ve revealed some sordid personal information that...
When Julie Robinson, the AGSA's head of prints, drawings and photographs, curated her first survey show back in 1990, it was a more straightforward affair. Then, pictures simply stared back at audiences - looming larger, perhaps, because of the bold new type-C prints being adopted by rising stars like Bill Henson and Tracey Moffatt, but mute and mysterious all the same. Fourteen years on, Henson and Moffatt have been joined by a more raucous mob of artists, whose pictures answer back - or, to cite one of Moffatt's videos, give Lip. "The momentum's been building," Robinson says...
...would do anything to see [Bush] reelected and making a financial contribution seems to be the most straightforward way of expressing that conviction,” Wisse said...
...don’t want to be ‘that guy’ who rides the unicycle everywhere because everyone would hate ‘that guy,’” he says. Ultimately, Cozzens’ relationship with the unicycle is fairly straightforward. “There aren’t too many deep unicycle thoughts,” he says. “Just ride...
...reauthorization comes before Congress, it’s the same song and dance. Accountability for failing teachers? No. Incentives for successful educators? Think again. Charter schools? Hardly. Vouchers of any kind? In your dreams. Actually, the only policy the NEA has ever favored on Capitol Hill is a rather straightforward one: Giving more money to the nation’s schools with few or no strings attached—the aforementioned policy that Kerry has recently usurped...