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...triplicate (Norman Rockwell, Jacque Henri Lartigue); or, most popular, nude (Suzanne Valadon, Gwen John, Cindy Sherman). Some pose with palettes, others focus on the essence of their art: Henry Moore sketched his strong sculptor's hands. And James Montgomery Flagg used his own face for the famous World War I "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam. The exhibit is only a small excerpt from a massive new book, Me I, by Oneself by curator Pascal Bonafoux and editor-publisher Diane de Selliers, due out this month. While affinities are not readily apparent between the 19th century master draftsman Jean...
...third Harry Potter looks substantially better than its two predecessors, likely due to acting lessons for li’l Radcliffe and the capable direction of Alfonso Cuaron, who could probably turn See Spot Run into a haunting examination of the human soul with vague sexual undertones. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has been apparently sitting on the shelf for some time which immediately sends up warning signals, but the outlandish, late ’30s detective comic visuals in the trailer suggest a full realization of the powers of CGI technology. A safer bet will be Richard...
...teller about Alex’s fortune in East German marks, rendered worthless a week earlier by the West-loving banks, is a more bitter example of the same phenomenon. The cold power of capitalism has totally subsumed an unprepared society, much as it continues to do throughout the Third World...
Boorstin, a social historian, wrote dozens of books during his lifetime, focusing not on world leaders but on the life of the average person. In 1973, he won the Pulitzer Prize in history for The Democratic Experience, the third volume of his trilogy, The Americans...
...first session about the silliness of imagining myself floating on rainbow clouds of mist. "Don't focus on the language," Alex said, sounding for all the world like a New Ager instead of a neurologist. "Focus on the intent." After a few weeks of practice on the subway, I could get to the end of taped 15-minute exercises and have no recollection of the train's having stopped. In our third of five sessions, Fremon pinched me while I was deeply relaxed. I felt nothing. When I was alert again, she pinched me as hard as before. I pulled...