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...flaming liberal. Dean self-destructed as he came close to success. Even the members of the religious right seem to embrace the losing nature of their struggle. Do they really believe wives are about to declare obedience to husbands or that gays are about to go back to the 1950s? Or is it the very smell of cultural gunpowder that keeps them alive...
...bear the inevitable LV logo in hard-to-miss gold. Also a must for spring: TOD'S WEDGE SHOE in citrus colors like orange and green. To finish the look, Christian Dior designer John Galliano has produced a special line of SNUG-FITTING JACKETS inspired by Dior's 1950s version. Galliano has cut the jackets out of funky fabrics like stonewashed denim, brocade and cargo khaki, giving them a modern edge...
...soulful geometric grids strove to induce nothing grander than, in her words, "a little happiness [and] tranquillity"; in Taos, N.M. Martin's work was sometimes linked to Minimalism, but she insisted it was more a product of Expressionism and certainly "not cool." She won acclaim in the late 1950s for her clean lines, awash in grays or muted pastels, then stopped painting for seven years. Influenced by Buddhism and the colors and shapes of New Mexico, she eventually resumed creating work that can now be seen in collections from the Tate in London to New York City's Museum...
...converged on an artists' colony in the mountains outside Beijing at a meeting of the unofficial Chinese branch of the global writers' association PEN International. The occasion: the awarding of a literary prize to author Zhang Yihe for her account of the traumatic anti-intellectual purges of the late 1950s. Such a gathering shows how far contemporary Chinese cultural life has come from the brutal days described in Zhang's book, when participants in similar events were sent to prison...
...witty dissection of modern corporate life, but its conclusion refuses to really address the issues it brings up. There is an undercurrent to the entire movie reinforced by its far-too-easy deus ex machina that says that the world should revert to the traditional archetypes of the 1950s. It is a frustrating punk-out that a movie so interested in looking at modern mores should seem like it could be a remake of a 1950s Cary Grant-Warren Beatty comedy. Walking out, there is the realization that there are a lot of problems ahead in trying to find...