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...cultural operating system is whatever you feel like downloading. The rest is like Amiri Baraka said so long ago—all about the “changing same.” The Beats of the 20th century—William S. Burroughs “cut-up?? technique, Jack Kerouac’s “school of disembodied poetics,” Amiri Baraka’s “jazz aesthetics”—become the beats of the 21st century. And like Martha Stewart says, ahem, “that?...
Chihwaseon is a sweeping historical epic that centers on the legendary nineteenth century Korean painter Jang Seung-up. Seung-up??s personal drama—his alcoholism, womanizing, and bitter struggle against the conservative academy that scorned his humble birth and unschooled talent—takes place in the milieu of the political and social upheaval resulting from and feeding into the Sino-Japanese...
...shik gives a brilliant and humane performance as the painter Seung-up. He generates sympathy and admiration for the struggling artist even as he unflinchingly portrays the villainous aspects of Seung-up??s personality. Min-shik’s Seung-up is sometimes a genius, often a lout, but always compelling. Min-shik’s ability to elicit pathos and laughter with the same gesture is nothing short of remarkable...
...surviving in power, and it is not impossible that they will ride out this wave of popular discontent and mobilization. We do, however, think that those brave souls in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square are right when they chant that the “time is up?? for unresponsive strongmen such as Bashar al-Assad...
Kaminsky’s clumsiness may have been spread campus-wide, but his identity was unknown until he e-mailed FM to ask for a digital copy of the picture. FM agreed to give it up??but only in exchange for the story behind the photo...