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...children's book for adults," a description hardly convincing for admirers of the silky lushness of, say, the novels of Rushdie or Morrison. Much more than style, however, the ideas expounded in the novel and the way author Jonathan Lethem structures them raise this book to its own, medium-high pedestal. At the most basic level, the novel is a literary reenactment of John Ford's 1956 Western The Searchers, which serves both as a tribute to the Great American cinematic genre of the Western and as a questioning of American notions of frontier and otherness. At another level...
Oval is one Markus Popp, a German-born artist. Dok, a collaboration with Japanese musician Christophe Charles, is the band's fourth album. Oval's artistic medium is the compact disc itself--Popp evidently takes CDs, scratches them, samples the resultant skipping and manipulates the recordings into musical works. With Dok, Oval samples the results of a project by Charles in which he recorded bells from around the world. Popp subscribes to the social theories of the late Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari and makes his art according to their ideas of rhizomes and machines. His constructions are rhizomatic: they...
...talk show is probably not Western civilization's finest achievement, but if there's any man who has made the most out of this senseless medium, it's Jerry. His program is consistently amusing, and he is unabashedly honest about its utter lack of social worth...
Franklin Mint attorney Arthur Seidel argued that the company is a communications "medium" and the medal is the same as a newspaper, thus it is protected by the First Amendment...
FRED GOLDMAN could not be blamed for never wanting to see another TV camera in his life. Yet he has become the latest participant in the O.J. Simpson trial to embrace the medium. He'll host Search for Justice with Fred Goldman, which will appear on UPN later this month. "For me, the word celebrity is offensive," says Goldman. "But people do recognize me. And maybe we can take the horror of losing my son and turn it into something positive." Search, which may be picked up as a series, will examine stories of injustice across America...