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...understanding that they will limit themselves to these circumscribed forms of advocacy, and that they will not dabble in bigger, more divisive issues, as they did this week.None of this is to say that there should not be a representative body responsible for discussing the sort of issues that stray sufficiently from the beaten path of present UC politics to provoke controversy and complaint. But, to prevent the confused outcry we saw this week, that body should be elected separately from the organization that plans and pays for campus events.By reconstituting the UC as two separate and independent bodies...
...Blow-Up,” Antonioni masterminded and created films that left artsy boys and girls everywhere rooted to their seats in gloomy rapture. Amazingly though, he opens up the theme of alienation while still rendering his movies accessible to the general public, proving it is possible to stray into the realm of introspection without winding up mired in deadly tedium.His 1975 film “The Passenger,” now remastered and redistributed, is no exception. Starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider—of “Last Tango in Paris” fame—this...
Such opinions don’t stray too far from historical debates over the purpose of art. It wasn’t too long ago that some philosophers, such as Georg Hegel, deemed the sole function of art as a way to convey the Spirit of God in visual terms. Its ultimate purpose, in his opinion, was to disappear entirely once mortals were enlightened with the Spirit. Plato himself believed in the eternal existence within the subjects of a work as an imitation of a phenomenal world...
...Until last Saturday, Uri had been a relatively safe place in Kashmir, despite its near proximity to the Line of Control. Aside from some stray shelling every few years from across the Pakistani border 12 miles away, Qumayom says his hometown was an island of peace amid the violence that swept Indian Kashmir when a civil war erupted between Indian soldiers and Muslim militants in 1989. ?Uri was safe,? he says. ?Nothing happened here. It?s always been a place apart. The soldiers did their duties and we did our jobs. We didn't bother each other...
McGuinness farmed himself out for the occasional production job and began to "live off my wife." The boys, still living at home, would occasionally be ! driven to dates by a stray mom or dad. This sort of early scuffling can break a band or bond it, and with U2 it seems to have brought the group closer. After a bit. "The first couple of years," says Clayton, "we kind of hated each other. It was very competitive, and everyone was trying to come out on top." As the band gigged around, scrambling to get heard by record companies and earn...