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Editorial
EDWARD SAID: Chronicle of an Infitada
Foretold
Good fences make good neighbors
makes for better poetry than politics -- and history.
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Essay
DAVID SOLWAY: Reflections on Quebec
and L'Affaire Richler
Mordecai Richler tells it like it
is, is vilified by the French and then the English, anti-Semitism
rears its ugly mug -- welcome to la belle province, the
minefield, the metaphor.
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Inquiry
IBM and the Bottom Line: Slimegate
1933-45
Its prototype of the computer was
developed for record keeping at the Nazi Death Camps.
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Interview
Tasha Robinson interviews JOHN MALKOVICH
In his directorial debut, (In
the Dance Upstairs), JM's characters are of their times.
"It's then up to us to choose what we want to hear. We're
on earth. There's no cure for that."
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Film
Review
KJ Doughton reviews MANIC, directed
by Jordan Melamed
In a perfect world, all roads lead
to meaningful existence: in Malemed's manic psychiatric ward,
nothingness and its opposite fight for souls of beings who have
fallen through the dawn.
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Film
Review
ROBERT J. LEWIS reviews Aki Kaurismaki's
THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST
Chasing down rainbows in the sink-holes
of Helsinki is the story of an amnesia victim 'at play in the
fields of the lord.' One fine film out of Finland.
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Essay
RYAN BIGGE: Everything Falls Apart
Is the sudden preoccupation with
'decay' a serious philosophical pursuit or just another cult-fiction?
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Short
Story
THE UNDERDOG by Sean Johnston
Maybe he's one of us we don't want
to know about? The human condition gets a mixed review.
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Art
Review
The Art of ERIC CARLOS BERTRAND by
Maya Khankhoje
The big-bang of paint refusing to
submit to chaos defines the energy and atavistic yearning of
Eric Carlos Bertrand.
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Photography
BOOT CAMP INSTINCTS by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
Like the gunslinger, the photographer
is only as good as his last best shot: the Holy Grail is not
a dark room conspiracy.
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Music
SIX DEGREES OF BLUES with Emanuel
Pordes
The plucky blues of Ray Bonneville
singing July Sun.
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