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...1940s Bacon had been making art for almost two decades, but he had exhibited very little before the Three Studies. Until the postwar years, he was largely unknown except perhaps to the older men who supported him, his multitude of male pick-ups on the side and whatever clients he attracted for a time as an interior designer in London. Decades later, stripped of any associations with fashion or taste, the ghostly outlines of his Bauhaus-flavored interiors and steel-tube furnishings found their way into the stark spaces and barred enclosures of his paintings. You detect them...
...other thought.In the volume’s longest essay, “Terror and Boredom: the Dependent Mind,” Amis interweaves his analytical plot of the development and effects of radical Islamism with the personal story of a novella he had abandoned, called “The Unknown Known,” in reference to Donald Rumsfeld’s taxonomy of terrorist threats. He abandoned the satirical work not because he had lost his inspiration, he says, but rather because in the face of “total terror and total boredom, irony, even militant irony (which...
...need to fill his parental void. while Victor bounces between foster families, Houston, a criminal and pseudo-terrorist, steals him away in bouts of blind but selfish love between arrests.Brad William Henke plays Victor’s best friend Denny, a chronic self-gratifier. Henke is a relative unknown but he offers an earnest and emotionally present performance that seems to exist almost in spite of the film’s oppressive post-ironic atmosphere. On the other hand, Macdonald—who emerges early on as Victor’s “honest” love interest?...
...musicians, including Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell. Siggins Smith, the club’s artistic director, began her career at Passim as a waitress in 1959, crossing over the Charles from Boston University to Cambridge with close friend Joan Baez. Today, Passim continues to provide opportunities for unknown artists while also attracting established musicians. “The ability to get really big names is not only because of the reputation, but because they remember the fact that when nobody else would listen to them, people at Club 47 or Passim would,” Susan Scotti...
...with the greatest possible emphasis that in truth Mr. de Menezes was in no way associated with bombs, explosions or any form of terrorism," judge Michael Wright told the jury at the start of the hearing. British law requires an inquest when a person dies unexpectedly, violently or of unknown causes. The goal is not to determine criminal responsibility, but to establish the facts of the case. At the end of the inquest, the jury can issue a narrative verdict detailing events as they see them, along with a judgment as to whether the death was a lawful or unlawful...