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...Heavy Liquid" may not be a deep read, but it has a lot of entertainment value. Paul Pope has a unique imagination and the talent to realize it. The story feels familiar while the details - a killer with the mask of the horse in Picasso's "Guernica," the hunt for an artist rather than a killer, and absurd stick-figure robots -feel fresh. This combination of new and old basically defines a superior work of genre fiction...
...media are confirming that dancing is very cool. The Broadway musical Swing and movies like Dance with Me, Swing Kids and Swingers all celebrate dancing. Ballroom-style dance routines are also turning up on MTV and in movies like What Women Want, Blast from the Past and The Mask of Zorro. Ballroom competitions are being presented more frequently on TV. Latin stars like Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Carlos Santana are releasing numerous ballroom songs that appeal to young audiences. Jim Anzelmo, an 18-year-old senior at Madison's Edgewood High who takes ballroom as a gym elective...
...Curiosity about what Marcos will do now that he's arrived in the capital may be one reason that the crowd went silent when the Subcomandante, who must have been broiling under that ski mask, took the microphone. His 15-minute speech provided no clues to his next move. But it did show that Marcos considers political speechmaking a form of performance poetry...
...claim financial aid. I give her what I have on me, but a handful of biscuits and a few rupees won't last a day. So I urge her to move closer to the road, to improve her chances of receiving alms. She agrees, and accepts a gauze mask for protection from the exhaust fumes. I've done a few unpleasant things over the years, but nothing made me feel as low as having to teach Balia...
...primitive" art in an "advanced" gallery--this being in the fall of 1914. Anthropological museums showed jumbles and heaps of African artifacts, but Stieglitz--whose eyes had been opened to such things in Paris by Picasso, Matisse and others--was ready and willing to assign an inscrutable Ivory Coast mask the dignity and singularity of an old Florentine bronze, or a new Brancusi. Today critics might find some unconscious bias in his belief that African art was close to the art of children: instinctive, untutored, vital. And because he thought much the same about art made by women, some feminist...