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turgenev and the serfs: “baptised property”
…Vavara Petrovna, Turgenev’s mother, had her office furnished like a court of law, with her portrait behind the dais in a pose reminiscent of Catherine The Great. Here the serfs were dealt rough, often irrational judgement for the smallest transgression. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Catherine the Great, Diane Keaton, Grigoriy Myasoyedov painter, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Leo Tolstoy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Vavara Petrovna, Woody Allen, Woody Allen Love and Death
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nature over intellect
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect. The human comedy where hedonism replaces heroism. Tragic heroes die for what is nobler in the mind, comic heroes live for what is livelier in the flesh. The tragic … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Boccaccio Decameron, Charles Dibdin, Christopher Fry, G. Wappers paintings, Gaius Petronius, henri Bergson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Bergson, Petronius Satyricon, Roberto Benigni, Saint Thomas Aquinas, To Rome With Love 2012, Woody Allen
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trial and sedition: tribute money and pay now plan
This triumph must have made the Jewish Revolt very real to the people of Rome; it was designed to render them vividly aware of the gravity of the danger from which the new emperor and his son had delivered them. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arch of Titus, Bob Dylan, Caravaggio, Daniel Sperber, Emperor Tiberius, Emperor Vespasian, Flavius Josephus, Josephus the Jewish War, King Herod, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Katsav, Pontius Pilate, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Shlomo Amar, Tacitus Roman Historian, Temple at Didyma, The Gospel of Mark, The Jewish War, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian destruction of the Second Temple, Woody Allen
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what’s new pussycat?
by Art Chantry: peter sellers, peter o’toole, woody allen, paula prentiss, ursula andrews, capucine and romy schneider (and others) on the 45 cover for the “whats new pussycat” single by tom jones. drawn by FRANK FRAZETTA. conan, it ain’t.
back to stovall’s plantation
On the one hand, what could one possibly expect from the entertainment industry. Its “product” serving as the servile public relations arm of the financial/industrial complex. And its been that way since the Hays Code of the 1930’s which coincided … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alaya Dawn Johnson, allison Janney, Bechdel Test, ben sidran dylan different, Bob Dylan, boris lurie, Charles Dickens, conrad black f.d. roosevelt, Daniel Craig, f.d. klingender, Feminist frequency, franklin roosevelt, george takei, jack warner, Louis b. mayer, Mae West, Oscar Awards 2012, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, robert e. howard, sam gompers, shirley temple, stieg larsson, The Artist movie, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, tree of life malkin, Winter's Bone movie, Woody Allen
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no alternative to the empty
The assimilation of art into cold, hard cash, ripping out its character, heart and guts and exploiting the aura of glamour around it. Its high end commercial art. prostitution. Such a gloomy world when the individual is a commodity. People … Continue reading
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