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Editorial
ARUNDHATI ROY on ANTI-AMERICANISM
In freedom-loving USA you're only free to tow the party line: Coming to terms with term abuse and its pernicious effects.
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Essay
ROBERT J. LEWIS: ALL-ABORED THE PORN EXPRESS
When we indulge in porn, nothing can go wrong, except getting caught at it. Lewis examines the presumption that the effects of porn are as short-lived as a scene from an X-rated movie.
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Essay
LETTER TO A MUSLIM by Tariq Ali
Ali is secular and serene: "Islam is in a desperate need of a reformation of ideas . . . more advanced than what the (thong-obsessed) West has to offer."
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Film Review
TALK TO HER (Hable Con Ella) reviewed by Frank Vigorito
Who makes the case that Pedro Almodovar (All About My Mother)
is Europe's greatest director.
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Film Review
SHANGHAI GHETTO reviewed by Elias Savada
The Chinese connection: the miraculous story of how China became a safe haven for Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.
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Art Review
THE ART OF GUSTAVO SIGAL
The political and social turmoil of Argentina transmuted into a compassionate art.
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Art Review
THE ART OF JUAN MANUEL SANCHEZ and ALEX WATERHOUSE-HAYWARD
A collaboration of drawing and camera -- metaphors of commitment and communion.
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Memoir
FAR ENOUGH SOUTH by Al Billings
"I wanted you nameless woman of the South, not wraith but utterly," -- and then the hurricane arrived.
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Poetry
MEDITATIONS AT LAGUNITAS by Robert Haas
An audio recitation -- on the ambiguities of loss and recovery.
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Essay
THE MONA LISA: THE MYSTIC SMILE by Rochelle Gurstein
From 15th century masterpiece to mass-produced commodity: what we have done to the Mona Lisa?
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Hybrid
Vigour
SEASON IN SOLITUDE by Pharaoh Lambert
Paradoxes of existence in a forlorn
age.
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Essay - Music
WHERE ARE TODAY'S COMPOSERS GOING WITH THIS
by Arthur Kaptainis
It's not only in the visual arts where everything is permitted: from cacophony to minimalism to orchestras going to broke. Why aren't we surprised?
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Music
SIX DEGREES OF BLUES with Emanuel Pordes
Jimmie Vaughan truly gets the blues.
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Opinion
ONCE BITTEN by Riad Saloojee
If only the let's-liberate-Iraq battle cry were a play, we might, as global citizens, close the curtain on this ridiculous charade.
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