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...traditional sea themes from dozens of sources. But while I attempted to make a comparison of Williams' use of so many different sources to that of Milton's insertion of classical references in Paradise Lost, it occurred to me that both of us were missing the point: these soundtracks weren't meant to be, as my friend stated, "the outward expression of the artists themselves." They were just soundtracks to films. Would a typical soundtrack of pop or rock songs be preferable to Williams' work in a film like Raiders of the Lost Ark? Of course not. But more than...
...office computer and proposed a covert search of his hard drive. But because of laws against searches and seizures in the workplace, government officials can't rifle employees' computers or desks unless the workspace has been specifically marked with banners warning of possible searches. The computers at Los Alamos weren't tagged, so to execute a search, the agents had to apply for a formal warrant through the Justice Department...
Actually, the cultural xenophobes weren't entirely wrong. Modernism was an immigrant, and the anxiety that haunted American artists for most of the 50 years the show covers was that of provincialism. In some respects the moderns were less original than the great American figures of the 19th century: John James Audubon, Frederick Church, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer. You were likely to be running behind the tick of the big clocks in Paris and Berlin whether you were Childe Hassam doing Impressionist streetscapes 30 years after Monet or a New York abstractionist producing ideal geometries in the early 1940s...
Margaret Cho: I've never been stopped by the police, but one time my Japanese friend and I were stopped by a group of kids who yelled, "Chinos ruin everything!" We weren't angry because we weren't sure whether they were talking about us or the pants. See, they could have been really racist or just fashion conscious...
...steady diet of violent video games made Josh behave badly? No. But he's much sweeter than the average boy. That's why I married him. All the same, I'm glad that Quake and Carmageddon weren't around when he was the age of my daughters' little friends...