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...these prosaic surroundings Zakii has fashioned his vaporously romantic style. His canvases are populated by huge male torsos floating in the night sky, wispy clouds of cigarette smoke and riderless horses. "My art is not rooted in things Malaysian," says Zakii, who cites the alienated urban aesthetic of David Hockney and Edward Hopper as formative influences. "I believe in something more universal...
...best thing you can say about the roofs of most city buildings is that you don't have to look at them much. That's very good, since an urban landscape viewed from above can be an unlovely thing--block after block of tarred black rooftops, sticky in the summer, windswept in the winter, ugly year-round. Or at least that's the way it used...
...many ways, Middleton speaks to today's audiences on a level Shakespeare cannot. While country boy Shakespeare set his plays in faraway lands of long ago, using language that was old-fashioned even then, Middleton, born and raised in London, wrote about urban life in a dialogue that's more familiar to the modern ear. A latter-day Scorsese, he walked on the dark side of the street, where you couldn't tell the good guys from the bad. "Part of the appeal of Shakespeare is that he takes you back to some imagined, glorious past," says Taylor. "But Middleton...
Meanwhile, challenger Sam Seidel, a wonkish Harvard-trained urban planner coming off of a narrow loss in 2005, won a place on the council, and Councillor David P. Maher, who was elected in a special election in September, retained his seat...
...Patrick’s plans for fighting crime came under scrutiny in October after many in the black community demanded that he devote more attention to urban violence...