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from the New York Times The Painter Who Adored Women By ROBERTA SMITH “Roy Lichtenstein: Girls,” at the Gagosian Gallery, presents 12 of Lichtenstein’s early paintings of the female creatures otherwise known as women. Based on cartoons and mostly blond, they are...
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by | Jun 10, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from The Atlantic Monthly What the Internet is doing to our brains BY NICHOLAS CARR Is Google Making Us Stupid? “Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous...
by | Jun 8, 2008 | Culture Music Art
from Pitchfork Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten Sued for Assaulting Assistant Stop press! This guy may be angry and violent! There may be problems ahead for Sex Pistols mouthpiece Johnny Rotten (or John Lydon, if you’re not nasty), as the perennially assholish...
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from the Guardian UK Guevara children denounce Che branding · Daughter denounces exploitation of image Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent Che Guevara T-shirts for sale in Cuba. Photograph: Chris Hammond/Alamy The scraggly beard, the beret adorned with a star,...
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from The Guardian UK The polar bear lies dead after being shot by police in Iceland. Photograph: Icelandic television A polar bear that swam more than 200 miles in near-freezing waters to reach Iceland was shot on arrival in case it posed a threat to humans. The bear,...
