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Just as few adolescents can ever believe that their parents have been through the same stages of attitude and development before them, so one of the more frequently recurrent fallacies has been people’s belief that their own age is without precedent, that some new order is coming to birth in which all the general assumptions …
The Turner Prize In 2006 a 29 year-old Scottish painter named Lucy McKenzie turned down the Turner prize nomination. McKenzie had worked as a porn model, and her oeuvre is sometimes sexually explicit (one painting shows her eating a bowl of soup below a framed image of a woman masturbating). The tabloids would certainly have …
While many others are worrying about war with Iran and a dozen other dreadful events, what is the BBC News preoccupied with? “Is sex on a plane legal?” It appears that Janet Jackson, having had the audacity of showing a part of her breast, is also a self-confessed “Mile-High Club” member. Meanwhile, the actor, Ralph …
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All is not lost. Washington and its self-important Imperial executives might be dead serious. Some might even be serious and competent be (but not many, at least, not in the Administration). But failing competence, we at least can look forward to a possible amusing incident for a change. Meet the probable next leader of poor …
