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...TIME magazine can be considered a cultural barometer, then anyone who wants to call himself “cultured?? had better start reading some comics.A few months ago, right alongside its lists of the best music and film of 2007, the magazine published a list of its “Top 10 Graphic Novels” of the year for the first time. It was filled with everything from individual issues of “Superman” comic books to little-known, underground comics.But chances are, if you’re the average American, you don?...
Also jammed into Scene is a jejune 10-page spread sponsored by Brooks Brothers—purveyor of fine off-the-rack clothing, est. post-Industrial Revolution—featuring pearl accessories as desperately cultured??or culturally desperate perhaps—as the presented models. But even these failings suggest an aspiration for refinement, something that cannot be said for the barnyard article on sexual lubricants. “KY Jelly is to sex as grape jelly is to gourmet…Even cheep [sic] porn directors know that the only thing grocery store lubricant is good...
...accusations hurled at the Coalition’s military planners are in many ways more disgusting than the rampant looting of Iraq’s cultural legacy, for they reveal the callousness of the “cultured?? toward human suffering. Donny George, the head of the National Archaeological Museum in Baghdad, told reporters that the US troops’ failure to protect artifacts was “the crime of the century because it is really affecting the heritage of mankind...
...these literary symposiums help the President’s image not just by bringing “cultured?? people into the White House. It is the way these people are selected and invited that is most impressive. The writers and literary experts recruited for these events were not the party faithful. Some of the guests have been very critical of President Bush and his policies. As the New York Times pointed out, one visitor to the literary symposium in September, Justin Kaplan, received his invitation even though he had publicly condemned the President?...
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