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...regimes in Egypt, Jordan and other Arab states have long worried about the rise of fundamentalist groups. When Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections just under three years ago, neighboring Arab governments grew even more nervous - and more determined to repress similar groups in their own countries. Never mind that a large reason for Hamas' rise was the dictatorial and corrupt ways of the old Fatah government, characteristics all too common in many Arab capitals...
...granted. “The Art of Subversion: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union,” an exhibit at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies running until Jan. 22, showcases artists that struggled to uphold these ideals in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union began to repress artistic expression. The artistic norm of the day was social realism, which “was charged with the task of constructing representational scaffolding for the projected reality awaiting Soviet citizens,” curator Anna Wexler Katsnelson wrote in the pamphlet accompanying the exhibit. The idea for this exhibit...
...particular achievement of The World is to flesh out the two potent forces that Naipaul has often seemed to repress: women and Trinidad, where he grew up. The abstemious Brahmin vegetarian who looked away from the movie screen whenever a kissing scene was shown, even after his marriage, is here revealed as a writer of wildly sensual letters whose mistress of 24 years called him "the Lion King" and drew sketches of his manhood in all its naked glory. That did not stop him from seeing her through three abortions and being, in his alarming words, "very violent with...
...election campaign, in which the opposition was allowed to campaign more or less freely, suggested the regime was loosening its grip, or was at least divided and unable to repress. The days after March 29 saw further hopeful signs. The opposition declared victory, and Tsvangirai was even moved to declare the dawn of "a new Zimbabwe founded on restoration, not on retribution, equality not discrimination, love, not war, tolerance not hate." He even said, "After Saturday 29th of March, 2008, Zimbabwe will never be the same again." Unfortunately for Zimbabwe, Mugabe and the Zanu-PF seem merely to have been...
...video, is she criticizing the worth of this stripper utopia? Is she reflecting upon the hollowness of her exhibitionist lifestyle? Has she adopted a devil-may-care attitude with regard to the burlesque dance? Her penetrating gaze forces us to confront the stripper that we all repress inside. Overall, the video’s artistic choices serve it well. They provide a steady, relaxing stream of undulating eye candy to watch as you reflect upon whether the Lilliputian Ms. Tequila picked the guy or the girl in the final episode of her reality show. If this video is any indication...