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"This is an age which happily invades its own privacy," writes Charles Nevin in "Taking liberties" an alarming feature in the summer issue if Intelligent Life.
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Like any commodity, art is worth only what someone is willing to pay for it. But unlike anything else, its value is entirely subjective. For brand-name artists to emerge and command breathtaking price-tags, a makeshift consensus is necessary. How does this happen?
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The story of the demise of print journalism, and its greying readership, is
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"Food, Inc" seemed like it was going to be a punitive film. I expected a lecture set against horrific images that promised to make my next burger slightly less tasty. It was the kind of film that appeared destined to be seen by a sympathetic audience, who would then go on to zealously recommend it to indifferent acquaintances.
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Obtaining a visa to study fine art at an American university is easy. Staying on after graduation, however, is a different matter. All across America, thousands of freshly minted MFA students are scheming of ways to stay in the country after graduation.
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About two years ago I got a copy of a CD called Panama! Latin, Calypso and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75, a compilation of mestizo folk music, Afro-Cuban rumba, mento and calypso, all performed by Panamanian musicians.
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The careers of pop-culture icons tend to fit into certain moulds. There’s the meteor who burns bright and dies young (Marilyn, JFK, Diana). There’s the bright young thing with stamina who never goes away (Dylan, Madonna).
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Evolutionary predisposition is the analysis du jour when describing all of human behaviour.
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Week after week, Emily Flake delivers a wry, single-panel syndicated comic strip: "Lulu Eightball". With dark levity (and perhaps a few shots of bourbon), Flake offers a clear-eyed take of our absurd days. The result is consistently funny and a bit wrong.
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Any artsy kid who saw the musical "Fame" at a tender age surely longed to attend a similar school, where leotard-clad students teemed the cafeteria and burst into song at the drop of a tray. The award-winning 1980 film, directed by Alan Parker, followed an array of precocious students as they sang and danced their way through the New York High School of Performing Arts.
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