Word: jacksonism
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...anyone still has lingering doubts of the modern relevance of mime, consider the moonwalk: Michael Jackson based it on—that’s right—Marceau’s “Walking Against the Wind...
...when discussing meaning. True, formalist critics had thrown out social conventions of meaning in favor of formal analysis, but they then proceeded to use their discussion of form as a platform for the construction of abstract interpretations. Consider what happened with one of the classic formalist darlings, the painter Jackson Pollock. Formalist critics raved about his explosively gestural drips and splashes, but only so that they could begin talking about those marks as vehicles of existential self-expression. Likewise, formalists loved the austere combinations of line, plane and primary colors favored by the painter Piet Mondrian, but only because they...
When he was twelve years old, Kareem Jackson, better known as Teflahn Poetix (“Tef”) started writing rap songs. By the time he was twenty, he began sleeping in the recording studio, spending his days recording albums and his nights competing in hip hop battles all over St. Louis, eventually acquiring a small following...
Since 1829, when newly inaugurated President Andrew Jackson opened the White House doors and invited ordinary citizens wearing “dirty boots” to meet their new commander-in-chief, the White House has represented something more than the residence of America’s chief executive. It is the people’s house. And those who work in it should know that they are there to do the people’s business...
...would." Rehberg, who filed counterclaims against Phoebe last week, now has the same security guard who protected Jeffrey Wigand. "Given a choice," Rehberg says, "I prefer to sit in back and observe. But I can't quietly tolerate injustice." Neither, apparently, can Scruggs. --With reporting by Anne Berryman/Albany, Alice Jackson-Baughn/ Jackson and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago