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Also evident in the album are traces of new influences from Gibbard’s recent side project The Postal Service, a collaboration with Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel which yielded a masterwork combination of indie pop and electronica...
...Christie's contemporary art sale in New York last month, the top lot was a huge mural painting by Mark Rothko that the auction house hailed as a "masterwork" and "of particular importance." When the bidding was over, No. 9 (White and Black on Wine) had sold for $16.4 million - a record for a Rothko at auction, as Christie's was quick to point out. What Christie's didn't trumpet was the identity of the seller: François Pinault, the self-made French billionaire whose holdings happen to include Christie's itself. The Rothko was in good company...
...kidnapped Iraqi weapons scientists—people whose chosen vocation is creating the very missiles and aerosols that our Department of Defense presumes to be pointed at us—are perhaps not the most likely to ’fess up the location of their alleged deadly masterwork. Does Donald H. Rumsfeld—and those in the White House, who the Times notes also approve of this plan—really think his forcibly-abducted songbirds will develop an instantaneous Stockholm Syndrome on American planes and start whistling the “Battle Hymn of the Republic?...
Nevertheless, your students need you here. The Department of Afro-American Studies has been your masterwork at Harvard, and it would be seriously damaged if you left. Your scholarship has been an inspiration both to your students and your colleagues. The work you have done for the last decade in bringing the best scholars from across the country to Harvard is truly amazing...
...crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy...A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page. FORECAST: Harcourt executive editor Ann Patty calls this 'the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,' and she's right: it's just the sort of gorgeous Dickensian doorstopper that serious readers will cozy up with as the fall...