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There are worrying signs, in fact, that Lebanon may be closer to a total meltdown than at any time since the 1975-90 civil war. An Arab diplomat told TIME that General Michael Suleiman, the commander in chief of the Lebanese Army, recently admitted that his troops would be able to contain a series of demonstrations "for only a few weeks." If Hizballah organizes protests around the country similar to those in Beirut last week, "We will not be able to cope," Suleiman reportedly said. His concern was that because many of his troops are Shi'ite, they would refuse...
Even better, Suleiman notes, it’s also entertaining. “I love anything that has humor in it. And surrealist work, even while it’s shocking sometimes, violent…there’s always this sort of explosive humor,” she says...
...relieved when Suleiman, who also teaches Literature and Arts C-55, “Surrealism: Avant-Garde Art and Politics Between the Wars,” laughs and says “of course” in response to my question about whether she knows of “The Colbert Report.” I press onward...
...that is good,” she answers. I feel vindicated. Yet perhaps I should have known that, in this particular context, traditional distinctions of any kind don’t mean much. As Suleiman points out, surrealism itself was about subverting any notions of authority, whether moral or artistic...
...Suleiman explains that viewers revolted by the violence of the image are not alone: Buñuel himself claimed to feel sick for a week afterwards despite the fact that the eye was not actually a human one, but rather a calf’s eye he had bought specially for the film. Even so, she says, the scene is remarkably rich and thought-provoking—more so because Buñuel is a part...