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There is something so otherworldly about these frames. They evoke the hyper-realist, pop illustration style of Maxfield Parrish and the uneasy, richly detailed backgrounds of da Vinci, yet they are photographs, with the texture and versimilitude that implies. Like shots of the long climb up the "escarpment" in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan pictures from the same period, they immediately summon the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. This is fantasy on a grand scale...
...original cosponsors are one of the more unlikely political odd couples ever seen in Congress: ultra-conservative Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner and hyper-liberal Texas Democrat Shiela Jackson-Lee. Though they rarely agree on anything, Sensenbrenner and Jackson-Lee say Coleman-Adebayo's testimony at a congressional hearing last fall brought them together on the need for the law. Her story, says Sensenbrenner, made it abundantly clear that new laws "with teeth in them" were required to make the EPA clean...
After Kikujiru, a wan comedy in which the Kitano gruff guy serves as a young boy's nanny, he has returned to the crime genre with Brother. Shot in Tokyo and Los Angeles, this is a hyper-violent action movie with the standard fish-out-of-water plot?only this fish is a tiger shark. A yakuza lieutenant comes to L.A. to help his half-brother, a low-level thug. Aniki, as everyone calls Kitano (Japanese for brother), has nerve, entrepreneurial skills and a lot of spare bullets. Before long, half of the L.A. underworld has eaten his lead...
...time for the counties to complete the counts and for the loser to contest the result before December 12, the day Florida has to pick which slate of electors to send to Washington. And well worth the wait. Legislatures are fallible - "the will of the people, not a hyper-technical reliance upon statutory provisions, should be our guiding principle in election cases" - and hand counts are supreme. "Our society has not yet gone so far as to place blind faith in machines. In almost all endeavors, including elections, humans routinely correct the errors of machines...
...opposition to the popular notion that conceptualism is dry and hyper-intellectual, the curators are careful to pick pieces which display a range of emotions. Many of the pieces in the show, for instance, are disarmingly comical: like Vincent Trasov's campaign for mayor as Mr. Peanut, or Goran Trbuljak's photograph of a door with the inscription, "From time to time I stuck my finger through a hole in the door of the Modern Art Gallery without the management's knowledge." Others, like Nomura Hitoshi's "'Moon' Score" (a piece of music written to the phases of the moon...