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Doin’ the right thing. the white stuff
Simple. A simple government.Common Sense. “Family Values” Its a common refrain that wraps up a political agenda into a wider context of right wing reactionary politics in which the apparent simplicity of the message is not detachable from a politics … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Spillius, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charlie Rose, Chuck Norris, John Edwards, Keanu Reeves, Michael Medved, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Natalie Portman, Pat Buchanan, Philip Roth, Ron Paul GOP, Sarah Palin, Steve malzberg, tabatha Southey, Tyra Banks, Tyra Banks Show, Yamina Benguigui
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leda and the black swan: daddy’s little princess on the lake
Is ballet dying or is it just an appropriate metaphor for death? Are we in love with the idea of ballet and all it stands for or are we repulsed by the obscure side that is in juxtaposition to its … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolph Rudolph Wiertmuller, Auguste Vestris, Black Swan movie, Darren Aronofsky, Edgar Degas, Elisabeth Maurin, Francois Boucher, Fred Astaire, Gaetano Vestris, Harriet Hoctor, Jennifer Homans, Katharine Kanter, Leni Riefenstahl, Margaux Williamson, Natalie Portman, Otto Rank, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sigmund Freud, Willaim Forsythe
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just lookin’ for a kiss
Is it true that women in the entertainment business are deterred from being funny. From being comic. Is the mixture of being beautiful and funny too combustible a substance to let out of the yard? Or is it because women … Continue reading
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Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Audrey Hepburn, Berthe Morisot, Betty Friedan, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Hitchens, Dorothy Parker, Feminism, Fran Leibowitz, Fritz Lang, Henry Makow, Jean Renoir, Joan Rivers, Laurel Nakadate, Leah McLaren, Natalie Portman, Nora Ephron, Sarah Bernhardt, sylvia plath, Walter Benjamin
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an enemy of irrational tendencies
Goya’s life was split in two near its midpoint by an illness that very nearly killed him when he was forty-six years old. If he had died, he would have left a large body of work establishing him as one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Bayeu, Francisco Goya, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Milos Forman, Muriel Julius, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba
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revolutionary for reason: consciousness of a tragic humanity
Horror. The world one usually associates with the work of Goya. Even in his brilliant early years as a court painter, an air of evil hung suspiciously in the background of his rococo paintings. Then, after his illness, they lept … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, Dante Alighieri, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, goya Black paintings, Goya's Ghosts, Kenneth Clark, Michel Serres, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, Theophile Gautier
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