The ebullient paintings of Stuart Davis, surveyed in a retrospective aptly titled “In Full Swing,” at the Whitney Museum, rank either at the peak of American modern art or a bit to the side of it, depending on how you construe “American” and “modern.” (And perhaps throw in “abstract,” a touch-and-go qualifier for an artist who insisted on the essential realism of even his most abstruse forms.) Davis, who died in 1964, at the age of seventy-one, laid heavy stress on both terms. The beginning of... Читать дальше...
“One rainy day in the spring of 1960, the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan arrived at my door,” Adrienne Rich wrote in her essay “A Communal Poetry.” Duncan was a daemonic bard with a Homeric attitude, who often wore a black cape and a broad-brimmed hat. Rich made him tea while trying to comfort her sick son, who moved between the high chair and her lap; Duncan, whom Rich cautiously admired, “began speaking almost as soon as he entered the house” and “never ceased.” Later, driving him to Boston in the rain... Читать дальше...
For three years, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro worked as a producer on the reality show “The Bachelor.” Her task, as she recalls it, was to get the contestants to “open up, and to give them terrible advice, and to deprive them of sleep.” She sees it now as “complicated manipulation through friendship.” To insure that intense emotions were captured on camera, she sometimes misled contestants who were about to be rejected. “The night they were going to get dumped, I would go to the hotel room where they were staying and say... Читать дальше...
The most recent season of “Call the Midwife” began with bloody fingertips. Thirteen minutes into the opening episode, a woman in labor groaned in distress, and the nurse-midwife, Patsy, used a gloved hand to check her progress. As Patsy explained that her patient’s baby had “got himself into a bit of a pickle,” two of her fingers hovered in the lower left corner of the screen. They were stoplight red, an alarm set against the scene’s demure cream-and-yellow backdrop.
In the mid-nineteen-seventies, the Canadian province of Manitoba ran an unusual experiment: it started just handing out money to some of its citizens. The town of Dauphin, for instance, sent checks to thousands of residents every month, in order to guarantee that all of them received a basic income. The goal of the project, called Mincome, was to see what happened. Did people stop working? Did poor people spend foolishly and stay in poverty? But, after a Conservative government ended the project, in 1979, Mincome was buried. Читать дальше...
Once a year, when Slava Epstein was growing up in Moscow, his mother took him to the Exhibition of the Achievements of the National Economy, a showcase for the wonders of Soviet life. The expo featured many things—from industrial harvesters to Uzbek wine—but Epstein, who began going in the nineteen-sixties, when he was eight or nine, was interested primarily in one: the Cosmos Pavilion, a building the size of a hangar, with a ceiling shaped like a giant inverted parabola. Space fever was running high in the city. Читать дальше...
Derrick Hamilton’s legal education began in 1983, when he was seventeen and in the jail for teen-age boys on Rikers Island. He’d been an enthusiastic student as a child—his family called him Suity, because he liked to wear a suit to school. But in high school he’d begun skipping classes and getting into trouble. At fifteen, he was charged with robbery and sentenced to sixty days in jail. The arrests continued, for petty larceny, assault, criminal use of a firearm. Then, in March of 1983, a bread... Читать дальше...
Last month, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for President, and Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, met at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee, two blocks from the Capitol. Ryan, the Vice-Presidential candidate in 2012, is widely regarded in the G.O.P. as a policy intellectual and has fashioned himself as the guardian of conservative ideology. Trump, one of the most opportunistic candidates in the Party’s history, had just knocked out the last of sixteen Republicans who had... Читать дальше...
The name of an explosive-ordnance-disposal expert killed in Afghanistan will live on at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.
WENATCHEE, Wash. — The Corvallis Knights concluded their season-opening nine-game road trip on Sunday with a 3-0 West Coast League loss at Wenatchee.
On the surface, this is a story about beds -- the mattresses and box springs and sheets bought by a startlingly successful start-up company looking for ways to give back to the city where it began.
Let the users pay! Some airport and airline executives have somehow got it in their heads that airport security is like universal health care, and that if wait times at the airport are too long, then the federal government ought to fix things by ...
The risk the U.K. would vote to exit the EU, or "Brexit," was one of the biggest risks to the global economy, Lloyd’s CEO said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Belt hit a two-run homer off rookie Julio Urias in the sixth inning to help Jake Peavy earn his 150th career win, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 on Sunday…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Belt hit a two-run homer off rookie Julio Urias in the sixth inning to help Jake Peavy earn his 150th career win, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 on Sunday…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Belt hit a two-run homer off rookie Julio Urias in the sixth inning to help Jake Peavy earn his 150th career win, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 on Sunday…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Belt hit a two-run homer off rookie Julio Urias in the sixth inning to help Jake Peavy earn his 150th career win, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 on Sunday…
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police in Connecticut say they're being extra vigilant after the shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida that left at least 50 people dead. New Haven police say they're paying close attention to public gatherings and LGBTQ venues. While there is no known threat of violence to New Haven or other Connecticut communities, New Haven police say they're "responding with an abundance of caution." Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy has ordered all flags in the state to be lowered to half-staff... Читать дальше...
Drugstore operator Walgreen formally ended a strained alliance with Theranos, as regulators near a decision on whether to impose sanctions against the embattled Silicon Valley blood-testing firm.
World Coal Association CEO, Benjamin Sporton explains why coal is still important for developing economies, while commenting on low-emission coal technology.