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...homeward hour: I returned thinking of books unread. "Comics und Religion: Eine Interdisziplinare Diskussion" shares this mental shelf with "Illuminated Pages of the Codex Amiatinus." But turning up the road towards Lowell in the early dusk I saw its facade lit up like a storyboard: numberless lighted shelves in which my classmates read, gesture, change clothes, argue and disappear...
...official use. Yet Haacke's previous works, like 1994's "Ernst Junger," make it hard to fully absolve the artist from Giuliani's accusations. In that installation, done also in Fraktur, the artist directly associates the typeface with Hitler. Given that this motif was also used in 1988's "Und Ihr habt doch gesiegt" (And You Were Victorious after All), it might be more accurate to accuse Haacke of being overly self-derivative than of trivializing the Holocaust...
...that's not the half of it. Wanting something, wanting it in the future and wanting it at a particular time in the future are also tricky distinctions. As W. H. Auden observed in his famous treatise on love, Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth): "I will love you forever, swears the poet. I will love you at 4:15 p.m. next Tuesday: is that still as easy?" Running headlong into our future plans can sometimes cause a bit of a train wreck...
...Ruffina Riserva of Villa di Vetrice is a true triumph. Both vinous and simple, the mouth is attacked, though not overbearingly, by the sturm und drang of the astringent, caustic tannins. The bold, endearing fruity aromas combine gracefully with the accents of menthol and spice. The finish is pleasantly unassertive. A tour de force...
...this year, so feel free to borrow them if you'd like: "To actually mail in those occult fecal-blood tests that doctors always give you after checkups" and "to stop honking my rubber-bulb ear-wax-removal syringe during performances of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron." Personal resolutions may simply pertain to your own vocabulary. For 2000, Sarah Jessica Parker has pledged not to use the F word. I also have a couple of purely lexical resolutions: "Not to use the words hiatus and credenza in the same sentence as much this year" and "to stop using...