It was a bold, headline-grabbing promise. Donald Trump vowed last week that immediately after his inauguration, he'd call Congress into special session to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
The only problem is that he wouldn't be able to do that. When the new president is inaugurated on Jan. 20, Congress will already be 17 days into a new session. The president can call an extraordinary session only for a Congress that has left the Capitol for the year.
"A lot of people who have lived in Washington their entire lives don't understand how Congress works," said Tripp Baird, who served as floor assistant to Trent Lott when he was the Senate Republican leader. "I wouldn't hold that against anyone."
Perhaps. But Trump's vow underscored a fundamental problem he would have as president. Nothing in his long experience as a businessman — the essential selling point of his campaign — compares to governing.
In business, he led companies run by his own family, operated by people he'd hired, and worked with stakeholders all aiming at the same thing, a profit. When he did work with a board of directors, he chafed, writing in his 1990 book, "Trump: Surviving at the Top," that he "personally didn't like answering to a board of directors." In the White House, he'd face a Congress with its own agenda and base of power, a nation full of stakeholders with goals that often would compete with his and an operating system built to work on consensus, not autocratic rule.
It would be — according to those who have worked for him, studied him and worked the levers of power in Washington — a potentially jarring new environment that would test his skills as a CEO and negotiator.
For starters, Trump would take office as the least popular president in modern history, according to a battery of polls. Many Americans, including a large swath of his own Republican Party, think he's not fit to hold office. He also has a fractious relationship with congressional leaders, chiefly House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
Some Trump priorities might find support among Republicans, including his call to repeal President Obama's signature health care law. But he almost certainly would not have a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, making it difficult to land much legislation, including his signature campaign promise to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico.
"He's kind of a party of one," said Leon Panetta, the former CIA director and defense secretary who served as chief of staff for former President Bill Clinton. "And unfortunately for him, that party has a limited base of support in the Congress."
Trump could push some things without congressional approval. He pledges to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and withdraw from a proposed Asia-Pacific trade deal that Obama has championed. He'd also cancel most of Obama's executive orders on immigration.
But Trump can only go so far without a willing Congress, meaning that many of his initiatives, including his call for a massive tax cut, could stall.
"You can be as much of an outsider as you want to be, but if Congress is not buying into your agenda you are just not going to get much passed," said Jonathan Felts, a former White House political director for President George W. Bush.
Trump's presidency would sorely test the Republican Party's concept of a big tent, said William Galston, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton who's now a senior fellow at the center-left Brookings Institution, a think tank.
"His independence from the orthodoxies of both parties could be a double-edged sword," Galston said. Trump would have "freedom of action, but it's questionable he'd have the skills or discipline to work with others while going it alone."
Republican congressional leaders will want progress they can point to for the 2018 congressional elections, said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump supporter. He noted that Trump has known likely Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York for years and would be able to forge a working relationship to secure some Democratic support.
Trump has promised a hiring freeze for federal employees, the elimination of two federal regulations for every new one and a ban on lobbying.
As an outsider, a unique challenge for Trump may be filling his government with experienced hands. Gingrich said Trump could look elsewhere.
"Appoint none of them," he said. "Not a single one. He can find dozens of fresh new people without using any people who have failed us for the past 15 years."
A go-it-alone approach would be a radical change for an American presidency, which is best run in a collaborative fashion, said Doug Elmets, a Republican consultant based in Sacramento, Calif., who worked in the Reagan White House.
"Leadership skills mean you don't know everything so you surround yourself with great people to give advice," Elmets said.
Trump has run his business and his campaign with a small circle of influence.
"He's quite the micromanager," said author Gwenda Blair, author of "Trumps: Three Generations that Built an Empire." Blair noted that Trump often talks about how he trusts his own instincts and doesn't need experts: "That was his modus operandi in business. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't."


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ARTICLES MOVIES & TV 5 MOVIE PROBLEMS THAT KIDS TODAY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND
5 Movie Problems That Kids Today Will Never Understand
Tiago Svn
Dan Hopper
Stephanie Shepard
Like everything else, movies age. Special effects look worse, popular slang and fashion are left behind, and political and social contexts shift. But sometimes, the very central dilemma of a movie becomes so outdated that the film itself is no longer relatable to modern-day audiences. Here are five examples of exactly that, delivered to you in convenient list form -- a format that will never, ever become dated or strange.
5 Christmas Vacation Is About A Middle-Class Homeowner Pissed That He's Not Getting A Huge Christmas Bonus To Cover A Pool
The holiday classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation remains a staple of the December basic cable movie rotation. Its most famous scene is a holiday-pressured Clark Griswold finally blowing a gasket in front of his family after he opens his highly anticipated Christmas bonus, only to find it's a subscription to the Jelly of the Month club.
That's not one irrelevant scene from a simpler time; the whole plot revolves around that moment. Clark is counting on this bonus so he can cover the payment for an in-ground pool, which he's already purchased in advance to surprise his family. To anyone under the age of 50 reading this, imagine a friend of yours complaining about this today. How much sympathy could you muster?
Warner Bros. Studios
"Sorry about your pool. I guess you'll have to just use the community pool, which I also can't afford."
Clark is not drowning in homeowner or student loan debt, or the costs of sending two kids to college. He's drowning in a debt of his making, trying to prematurely add a pool onto the beautiful house he already owns. He has a house in suburban Chicago, his wife doesn't work, and he presumably has health insurance and a 401k. All those sweet "employment" perks sound like some lost fantasy city of Atlantis to Millennials entering the workforce today. And we're supposed to share his rage at not getting a good Christmas bonus? It might have been a relatable problem to a lot of people back in the day, but explain that scene to your average "middle-class" worker now, and prepare for some rolled eyes, accompanied by the most thorough and exhaustive jerk-off motion you have ever seen.
4 One Hour Photo Is About A Creepy Guy Who ... Looks At All Your Pictures
One Hour Photo stars Robin Williams as Sy, a professional photo developer at a local supermarket ... and we've already confused our younger readers in several different ways. Sy befriends a family of regular customers, but his cheery professional demeanor turns sinister when we see him at home, exhaustively perusing every picture the family has ever brought him.
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"Developed? Like, he added some filters?"
This scene still comes across as unsettling today, but digitize any of his actions, and we'd bet somebody reading this article is doing the exact same thing in another tab. You know, scrolling through every post on their crush's Instagram account. Still potentially creepy behavior, but nobody's gonna make a movie about it.
Today, this photo-obsessive mom would definitely have an Instagram, and that account would almost definitely be public, and random people would constantly be scrolling through photos of her kids' sporting events and their family vacations all the time. She'd want the maximum number of people to see them; that's the whole point of posting photos publicly. Really, for modern audiences, the only thing tipping them off that Sy is a creep is that haircut.
He is clearly the love child of King Joffrey and Flo from Progressive.
3 In Airheads, A Band Breaks Into A Radio Station To Get Exposure
In the '90s Comedy Central rerun staple Airheads, an amateur rock band named the Lone Rangers attempts to "make it big" by taking a local radio station hostage and forcing them to play their demo tape. The idea is that an agent will hear the single, sign them, and book them for Lollapalooza, or whatever the 1994 equivalent of Coachella was.
And the idea of guys storming into a workplace with guns could be used in a comedy film and not horror.
Imagine a band nowadays thinking the only barrier for entry into the music business is getting their song played one time on a local radio station. Hell, depending on how media-savvy they are, you might have to explain the whole concept of radio stations to a modern kid. "It's like a podcast mixed with Spotify, but always on. Also there are ads. Ads? Well you see, companies used to make money on things called adverti-"
There's also the fact that the band owns TWO physical copies of their song: a reel-to-reel (which catches fire) and a cassette tape that they lose and desperately need to track down. Nowadays, anyone would have a digital file easily accessible on their phone, or a flash drive, or the damn cloud. 40 minutes of this movie would today get condensed into a 15-second scene in which Steve Buscemi re-downloads an email attachment.
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"What studio did you record this in?" "The laptop in my apartment."
2 In Sixteen Candles, Nobody Remembers A Girl's Birthday
Sixteen Candles hails from a period in human history when a person could make it through their entire day without getting 75 Facebook birthday reminders from friends, family members, and forgotten high school acquaintances with babies you've seen more times than a sunset.
That's the driving force behind John Hughes' directorial debut, wherein Molly Ringwald's character, Sam, bemoans the fact that everybody in her life forgot her special day. Her Sweet Sixteen happens to fall one day before her sister's wedding, so everyone in her life is too preoccupied to toss an "HBD" her way. They don't have Facebook, Google Calendars, extremely basic knowledge of their own flesh and blood, or the ability to read a teenager's glaring facial cues.
Props to John Hughes for making a movie with an F-bomb and nudity, yet still pulling a PG rating.
Nowadays, Sam would be instantly deluged with "Happy Birthday" messages, beginning at 12:01 a.m. and continuing for three days after her birthday, at which point she would scroll through them, "like" the best ones, feel bad for not "liking" all of them, then acquiesce and spend the rest of her day politely "liking" the full 200. The 2018 version of Sixteen Candles would involve Sam checking her email and wondering, "Why am I getting a birthday wish from 'your friends at O'Hare Long-Term Parking?'"
1 The Ring Is About A Video That Kills You ... Unless You Share It
In The Ring, people die seven days after watching a cursed videotape. That is, unless they make a copy of the tape and show it to someone else. But this was in 2002, before the rise of the omnipresent, omnipotent YouTube.
Today, the cursed tape would get ripped immediately -- probably before it even officially came out -- and then copied hundreds of times, prompting response videos, parodies, and dozens of memes that would be beaten into the ground within a week.
"The Ring, but every time Superintendent Chalmers says the letter 'B,' it kills you twice as fast."
No one would ever die from the Ring curse. Well, not for at least a few months, anyway, after which our fleeting attention spans would all shift to a clip of a bird that looks like it's doing the Dougie or something.
Also, no one actually owns a functional VHS player anymore. Unless it was uploaded to YouTube, the tape would claim the lives of, like, two library technicians and 73 hipsters watching it ironically.
As if a VHS tape could have survived that long without getting eaten in a VCR or taped over with a baseball game.
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The sacrament of Holy Orders is conferred in three ranks of clergy: bishops, priests and deacons. Bishops (episcopoi) have the care of multiple congregations and appoint, ordain and discipline priests and deacons. They sometimes appear to be called "evangelists" in the New Testament. Examples of first-century bishops include Timothy and Titus (1 Timothy 5:19-22; 2 Timothy 4:5 and Titus 1:5).
Priests (presbuteroi) are also known as "presbyters" or "elders." In fact, the English term "priest" is simply a contraction of the Greek word presbuteros. They have the responsibility of teaching, governing, and providing the sacraments in a given congregation (1 Tim. 5:17; Jas. 5:14–15).
Deacons (diakonoi) are the assistants of the bishops and are responsible for teaching and administering certain Church tasks, such as the distribution of food (Acts 6:1–6).
In the apostolic age, the terms for these offices were still somewhat fluid. Sometimes a term would be used in a technical sense as the title for an office, sometimes not. This non-technical use of the terms even exists today, as when the term is used in many churches (both Protestant and Catholic) to refer to either ordained ministers (as in "My minister visited him") or non-ordained individuals. (In a Protestant church one might hear "He is a worship minister," while in a Catholic church one might hear "He is an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion.")
Thus, in the apostolic age Paul sometimes described himself as a diakonos ("servant" or "minister"; cf. 2 Cor. 3:6, 6:4, 11:23; Eph. 3:7), even though he held an office much higher than that of a deacon, that of apostle.
Similarly, on one occasion Peter described himself as a "fellow elder," [1 Pet. 5:1] even though he, being an apostle, also had a much higher office than that of an ordinary elder.
The term for bishop, episcopos ("overseer"), was also fluid in meaning. Sometimes it designated the overseer of an individual congregation (the priest), sometimes the person who was the overseer of all the congregations in a city or area (the bishop or evangelist), and sometimes simply the highest-ranking clergyman in the local church—who could be an apostle, if one were staying there at the time.
Although the terms "bishop," "priest," and "deacon" were somewhat fluid in the apostolic age, by the beginning of the second century they had achieved the fixed form in which they are used today to designate the three offices whose functions are clearly distinct in the New Testament.
As the following quotations illustrate, the early Church Fathers recognized all three offices and regarded them as essential to the Church's structure. Especially significant are the letters of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, who traveled from his home city to Rome, where he was executed around A.D. 110. On the way he wrote letters to the churches he passed. Each of these churches possessed the same threefold ministry. Without this threefold ministry, Ignatius said, a group cannot be called a church.
"Now, therefore, it has been my privilege to see you in the person of your God-inspired bishop, Damas; and in the persons of your worthy presbyters, Bassus and Apollonius; and my fellow-servant, the deacon, Zotion. What a delight is his company! For he is subject to the bishop as to the grace of God, and to the presbytery as to the law of Jesus Christ" (Letter to the Magnesians 2 [A.D. 110]).
"Take care to do all things in harmony with God, with the bishop presiding in the place of God, and with the presbyters in the place of the council of the apostles, and with the deacons, who are most dear to me, entrusted with the business of Jesus Christ, who was with the Father from the beginning and is at last made manifest" (ibid., 6:1).
"Take care, therefore, to be confirmed in the decrees of the Lord and of the apostles, in order that in everything you do, you may prosper in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in Son and in Father and in Spirit, in beginning and in end, together with your most reverend bishop; and with that fittingly woven spiritual crown, the presbytery; and with the deacons, men of God. Be subject to the bishop and to one another as Jesus Christ was subject to the Father, and the apostles were subject to Christ and to the Father; so that there may be unity in both body and spirit" (ibid., 13:1–2).
"Indeed, when you submit to the bishop as you would to Jesus Christ, it is clear to me that you are living not in the manner of men but as Jesus Christ, who died for us, that through faith in his death you might escape dying. It is necessary, therefore—and such is your practice that you do nothing without the bishop, and that you be subject also to the presbytery, as to the apostles of Jesus Christ our hope, in whom we shall be found, if we live in him. It is necessary also that the deacons, the dispensers of the mysteries [sacraments] of Jesus Christ, be in every way pleasing to all men. For they are not the deacons of food and drink, but servants of the Church of God. They must therefore guard against blame as against fire" (Letter to the Trallians 2:1–3 [A.D. 110]).
"In like manner let everyone respect the deacons as they would respect Jesus Christ, and just as they respect the bishop as a type of the Father, and the presbyters as the council of God and college of the apostles. Without these, it cannot be called a church. I am confident that you accept this, for I have received the exemplar of your love and have it with me in the person of your bishop. His very demeanor is a great lesson and his meekness is his strength. I believe that even the godless do respect him" (ibid., 3:1–2).
"He that is within the sanctuary is pure; but he that is outside the sanctuary is not pure. In other words, anyone who acts without the bishop and the presbytery and the deacons does not have a clear conscience" (ibid., 7:2).
"I cried out while I was in your midst, I spoke with a loud voice, the voice of God: 'Give heed to the bishop and the presbytery and the deacons.' Some suspect me of saying this because I had previous knowledge of the division certain persons had caused; but he for whom I am in chains is my witness that I had no knowledge of this from any man. It was the Spirit who kept preaching these words, 'Do nothing without the bishop, keep your body as the temple of God, love unity, flee from divisions, be imitators of Jesus Christ, as he was imitator of the Father'" (Letter to the Philadelphians 7:1–2 [A.D. 110]).
"A multitude of other pieces of advice to particular persons is written in the holy books: some for presbyters, some for bishops and deacons; and others for widows, of whom we shall have opportunity to speak elsewhere" (The Instructor of Children 3:12:97:2 [A.D. 191]).
"Even here in the Church the gradations of bishops, presbyters, and deacons happen to be imitations, in my opinion, of the angelic glory and of that arrangement which, the scriptures say, awaits those who have followed in the footsteps of the apostles and who have lived in complete righteousness according to the gospel" (Miscellanies 6:13:107:2 [A.D. 208]).
"When a deacon is to be ordained, he is chosen after the fashion of those things said above, the bishop alone in like manner imposing his hands upon him as we have prescribed. In the ordaining of a deacon, this is the reason why the bishop alone is to impose his hands upon him: he is not ordained to the priesthood, but to serve the bishop and to fulfill the bishop's command. He has no part in the council of the clergy, but is to attend to his own duties and is to acquaint the bishop with such matters as are needful. . . .
"On a presbyter, however, let the presbyters impose their hands because of the common and like Spirit of the clergy. Even so, the presbyter has only the power to receive [the Spirit], and not the power to give [the Spirit]. That is why a presbyter does not ordain the clergy; for at the ordaining of a presbyter, he but seals while the bishop ordains.
"Over a deacon, then, let the bishop speak thus: 'O God, who have created all things and have set them in order through your Word; Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, whom you sent to minister to your will and to make clear to us your desires, grant the Holy Spirit of grace and care and diligence to this your servant, whom you have chosen to serve the Church and to offer in your holy places the gifts which are offered to you by your chosen high priests, so that he may serve with a pure heart and without blame, and that, ever giving praise to you, he may be accounted by your good will as worthy of this high office: through your Son Jesus Christ, through whom be glory and honor to you, to the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit, in your holy Church, both now and through the ages of ages. Amen'" (The Apostolic Tradition 9 [A.D. 215]).
"Not fornication only, but even marriages make us unfit for ecclesiastical honors; for neither a bishop, nor a presbyter, nor a deacon, nor a widow is able to be twice married" (Homilies on Luke17 [A.D. 234]).
Council of Elvira
"Bishops, presbyters, and deacons may not leave their own places for the sake of commerce, nor are they to be traveling about the provinces, frequenting the markets for their own profit. Certainly for the procuring of their own necessities they can send a boy or a freedman or a hireling or a friend or whomever, but, if they wish to engage in business, let them do so within the province" (Canon 18 [A.D. 300]).
Council of Nicaea I
"It has come to the knowledge of the holy and great synod that, in some districts and cities, the deacons administer the Eucharist to the presbyters [i.e., priests], whereas neither canon nor custom permits that they who have no right to offer [the Eucharistic sacrifice] should give the Body of Christ to them that do offer [it]. And this also has been made known, that certain deacons now touch the Eucharist even before the bishops. Let all such practices be utterly done away, and let the deacons remain within their own bounds, knowing that they are the ministers of the bishop and the inferiors of the presbyters. Let them receive the Eucharist according to their order, after the presbyters, and let either the bishop or the presbyter administer to them" (Canon 18 [A.D. 325]).
"[In Philippians 1:1 Paul says,] 'To the co-bishops and deacons.' What does this mean? Were there plural bishops of some city? Certainly not! It is the presbyters that [Paul] calls by this title; for these titles were then interchangeable, and the bishop is even called a deacon. That is why, when writing to Timothy, he says, 'Fulfill your diaconate' [2 Tim. 4:5], although Timothy was then a bishop. That he was in fact a bishop is clear when Paul says to him, 'Lay hands on no man lightly' [1 Tim. 5:22], and again, 'Which was given you with the laying on of hands of the presbytery' [1 Tim. 4:14], and presbyters would not have ordained a bishop" (Homilies on Philippians 1:1 [A.D. 402]).
Patrick of Ireland
"I, Patrick, the sinner, am the most rustic and the least of all the faithful . . . had for my father Calpornius, a deacon, a son of Potitus, a priest, who belonged to the village of Bannavem Taberniae. . . . At that time I was barely sixteen years of age . . . and I was led into captivity in Ireland with many thousands of persons, in accordance with our deserts, for we turned away from God, and kept not his commandments, and were not obedient to our priests, who were wont to admonish us for our salvation" (Confession of St. Patrick 1 [A.D. 452]).
"I, Patrick, the sinner, unlearned as everybody knows, avow that I have been established a bishop in Ireland. Most assuredly I believe that I have received from God what I am. And so I dwell in the midst of barbarous heaths, a stranger and an exile for the love of God" (Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus 1 [A.D. 452]).
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2-907. Kansas department of agriculture designated as the official state agency to carry out the national poultry improvement plan. The Kansas department of agriculture is hereby designated the official state agency for the state of Kansas, for the purpose of carrying out the national poultry improvement plan. The Kansas department of agriculture may cooperate with the United States department of agriculture and Kansas state university for the purpose of promoting the poultry industry and its allied branches and shall supervise and administer the national improvement plan in this state.
History: L. 1949, ch. 7, § 1; L. 1965, ch. 3, § 1; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 14; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 5; L. 2013, ch. 90, § 3; July 1.


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How to Build a Smarter Times, According to the Times' Own Journalists
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Long Live The New York Times: A Special Package
Michael Kinsley quizzes Jill Abramson
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Who should buy the paper?
The Times' new rival: Mickey Mouse
Michael Kinsley's plan for The National Tribune
In 1976, legendary Timesman A.M. Rosenthal, faced with the rising cost of newsprint, tasked his equally legendary deputy, Arthur Gelb, with formulating new sections to attract extra ads and readers to the newspaper and, as Gelb later wrote, "rescue the Times and secure its future." By 1978, "SportsMonday," "Science Times," "Living," "Home," and "Weekend" were in place. Traditionalists cried foul. But the additions were cash cows whose spawn now feel as stubbornly natural to the paper as the Gothic logo and refusal to use the Oxford comma.
Today, The New York Times is wracked by a new crisis, which, like that past one, stems from economics but must be solved partly through editorial strategy. The Times Company's quirky dual-stock structure means the Ochs-Sulzberger clan is less likely than The Washington Post's Grahams and The Wall Street Journal's Bancrofts to feel pressure to sell. But sustainability ultimately depends on cash flow, and revenues at the Times have declined for three years running. Cost-cutting its way out of the problem risks turning the paper into a journalistic shadow of itself, thereby defeating the whole point. That has left CEO Mark Thompson and executive editor Jill Abramson to plot a new path forward. Mindful both of the ways people read the paper today (digital subscriptions now approach weekday print subscriptions, and nearly half of digital traffic comes from mobile devices), and by which the paper makes money (advertising: not a growth area), they must sign up more subscribers and perhaps induce some subscribers to pay beyond what they do now.
A key difference from 1976 is that the newsroom is generally on board. I spoke to two-dozen current staffers, on and off the record, and emerged with the impression that most are buying into the new initiatives, many of them pushed by the well-liked Thompson. I also heard an appetite for further, bolder experimentation. Inspired by these conversations, some immodest proposals for how the Times can survive while staying the Times we know.
1. GET INTO MORE READERS' WALLETS. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS.
The facts on the ground: Last year, annual circulation revenue—people people paying for the paper in all its forms—surpassed advertising revenue for the first time in the Times' modern era. "The launch of the pay model," Thompson said in May, referring to the Internet pay wall, "is the most important and most successful business decision made by The New York Times in many years."
The problem is that the paper may now be hitting a paid-circulation plateau. To keep readers ponying up, the Times is beginning to narrowcast content to fit their habits: "New York Today," a popular Metro tipsheet, is featured prominently on the mobile app from early morning through noon to tap into smart-phone traffic, which spikes around 8:00 a.m. Its next logical move is to create pared-down and subject-specific editions that can be purchased for less than the cheapest current subscription, which runs $15 a month. "Need to Know," an informal name (snappy abbreviation: N2K) for a forthcoming news digest, is one example. Another is the food app that outgoing national editor Sam Sifton was assigned to run as part of the new digital portfolio he has been given. A third—which you're reading about here first—is a new opinion app.
What the Times SHOULD do next: The food and opinion apps are the fruits of a Times-commissioned McKinsey study, which also identified markets for mobile and tablet applications covering technology, politics, and the arts. As the food app might say: Fire 'em up! Then keep iterating: Launch an evening retrospective, for example, for doctors and the like who can't get to the paper during their morning duties. If the Times can convert freeloaders into micro-subscribers forking over $7 or $8 a month to receive content that largely already exists, that's money in the bank.
2. BECOME THE INTERNATIONAL PAPER OF RECORD. NEXT STOP, RIO!
The facts on the ground: More than a fifth of visits to nytimes.com come from outside the United States, but only 10 percent of subscriptions do. The Times is taking steps to close that gap, including a Chinese-language site overseen by veteran correspondent Philip Pan; a beefed-up India blog; and the rechristening, this October, of the International Herald Tribune as the International New York Times. (Onetime politics editor Dick Stevenson will run the newly integrated European newsroom; two-time Pulitzer-winner and closet Formula One fanatic John F. Burns is taking a new beat as roving sportswriter.) The company is even making it easier to buy Times subscriptions in foreign currencies.
What the Times SHOULD do next: Keep exploring. Ian Fisher, an assistant managing editor, notes that Times stories about Brazil do particularly well, traffic-wise. "The protests in Brazil were like number one on Chartbeat," the traffic-monitoring software, "and it was about half through social," he says. "People have thought about some kind of Brazil edition." Plans to make an actual play for the world's fifth largest country are only tentative at this point, but just considering it reflects the right mindset.
3. HEAD OFF THAT BREWING MAGAZINE DUEL. "SNOW FALLS," FOR ALL.
The facts on the ground: An underappreciated aspect of "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek," the browser-crashing, Pulitzer-winning, multimedia extravaganza that the Times sports desk produced last December, is that it was never pitched for the front page. That marked a significant shift in the culture of the newsroom, where digital blockbusters are now seen as a way to become a star. The Times is producing so much interactive whizbangery that Abramson has tasked Sifton with creating "an immersive digital magazine experience" to collect, showcase, and make more money from those kinds of stories—somehow. "I've taken to calling it 'the MacGuffin,' since we're not sure exactly what it is yet," says Sifton. Meanwhile, the Sunday magazine team, which knows a few things about long-form narratives and story packaging, remains sequestered up on the sixth floor, cut off from the newsroom's stellar interactive graphics team, and its online layouts pale in comparison.
What the Times SHOULD do next: Move the Sunday magazine into the newsroom. Fold it into the MacGuffin, or vice versa. If the paper believes so strongly in this sort of content, broadly defined, why not just build one excellent magazine operation to publish lush features for the website and mobile apps, curate the most magazine-y digital content from other desks, and put out a Sunday print edition? Setting up dueling fiefdoms, as the paper risks doing with Hugo Lindgren's existing magazine and the newsroom's Untitled Sifton Project, is so old Times.
4. CUT THE DAILY EDITORIALS. DO YOU EVEN READ THEM?
The facts on the ground: The Opinion pages have a staff of roughly 50 that is responsible for the bulk of the "Sunday Review" and the two-page opinion spread that runs daily. About one-third of those 14 weekly pages consists of editorials and "Notebooks" and "Observers," the bulk of which are written by a twelve-person conclave staffed by veterans who very likely cost a few million in payroll.
What the Times SHOULD do next: It can't fire Maureen Dowd or David Brooks (or insert your least-favorite op-ed columnist here). Hate-reading drives traffic, and the conversation. But the paper need not invest so heavily in anonymous editorials that—with rare exceptions—would not be widely missed.
Earl Silver/The New York Times/Redux
5. FIND YOUR NEXT NATE SILVER. (HINT: HE ALREADY WORKS FOR YOU.)
The facts on the ground: The paper is not set up to outbid the likes of ESPN, the $40 billion Disney subsidiary to which Silver decamped. (It is telling that Thompson is said to have been less invested in keeping him than Abramson was.) At the same time, it can't afford to lose out on his interstellar traffic numbers."It's not a blemish," said one Times editor, summing up the feelings of many at the paper, "but it's certainly a bummer."
What the Times SHOULD do next: "What the Times does best is pull back the curtain on politics," says politics editor Carolyn Ryan. "But clearly Silver demonstrated that our readers also crave a sophisticated understanding of numbers and trends and what they say about the electorate right now, and somebody who can present that in a way that is both accessible and smart." Another such somebody: David Leonhardt. The Washington bureau chief is a Pulitzer-winning economics writer with a reporter's chops and an engineer's mind (which is to say, he does not have the ideal bureau-chief personality). He's already writing articles expertly and empirically analyzing health care reform, abortion, and inequality. In 2004, he wrote a column called "Keeping Score" about sports analytics. This is a no-brainer.
6. GIVE DAVID CARR ... SOMETHING. MILK THE BRANDS YOU'VE GOT.
The facts on the ground: "The importance of Grantland as a successful precedent was very important to me," Silver said last month, explaining his decision to leave by reference to Bill Simmons's ESPN-hosted magazine. The only thing vaguely like it in the Times universe is Andrew Ross Sorkin's DealBook. This shortage hurts the Times in today's Internet media economy, in which mini-empires built around distinct voices (such as Ezra Klein's Wonkblog at The Washington Post) can give a larger outlet separate channels through which to attract both readers and rising talent.
What the Times SHOULD do next: Build some of those "successful precedents" and become home to the Silvers and Sorkins and Kleins of the future. As a full-time media columnist, part-time culture feature writer, sometime magazine contributor, occasional unofficial Times spokesman, and all-around Twitter savant, Carr is a smart candidate for this bet. Give him his own small crew, and turn them loose on an old-school New York Observer, mixing media- and entertainment-industry reporting and commentary with vaguely edgy cultural coverage. Then try the same with, say, Tara Parker-Pope and her Well blog.
7. DON'T SWEAT THE ATTRITION. ELITISM IS YOUR FRIEND.
The facts on the ground: Obviously not every Times staffer is happy with every management decision. But collectively I heard from newsroom sources a genuinely anachronistic and genuinely valuable loyalty to the broader enterprise not found at an outfit like ESPN—or Bloomberg, Reuters, or The Huffington Post, to cite other places that have poached its staffers in recent years. This sentiment (sentimentality?) enables the Times to retain ace journalists who work for less-than-market value in exchange for the privilege of knowing that, as Sifton put it, "your last name here is 'New York Times.'"
What the Times SHOULD do next: See previous entries! Times journalism is expensive. But it's also the perk that keeps its practitioners at the paper, doing the kind of reporting that sustains the brand, which keeps readers paying for subscriptions, which help pay for more ambitious work. It's not exactly an innovate-or-die situation for the paper. It's more like: Innovate or find yourself a Bezos—who might tinker more drastically than you'd like.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic.
An earlier version referred to the "editorial board" when it should have referred to "the Opinion pages."
mtracy@tnr.com
Media, New York Times, Jill Abramson, Nate Silver, David Carr


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Solo Pandroso sopravvive e lo cresce dall'infanzia fino alla sua definitiva trasformazione in serpente. Successivamente Erittonio, si ritira a vivere in una grotta, nella quale viene ucciso da Poseidone che lo assimila divenendo Poseidone-Eretteo.

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05/22/19 @ 5:13 pm EST
Source: Dynamite | Categories: Dynamite
Dynamite Entertainment announces a Kickstarter for upgraded packaging and contents for the Bettie Page Deluxe Ultra-Premium Sketch Card Collection. Adorers of Bettie's timeless beauty and sketch card fanatics can check out the campaign for great value on packs and boxes, including one-of-a-kind sketch cards and other bonuses! Famed wrestler, commentator, artist and Bettie superfan Jerry "The King" Lawler will not only be featured as an additional card premiering via Kickstarter, but will also be contributing signed and exclusive sketch cards to the set with a unique design!
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12/30/20 @ 10:24 pm EST
Source: Hollywood Reporter | Categories: Dynamite
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DYNAMITE BOOKS CELEBRATES FIRST ANNIVERSARY WITH 50% OFF!
After a fantastic debut year, Dynamite Books wants to celebrate their anniversary by giving readers their first-ever sale. From now until the end of the year, all the digital novels introduced this year will be 50% off through Amazon.com. This includes the latest from the military fiction titles SEAL Team Six: No More and the new SEAL Team Six: AX, as well as horror icons Vampirella and Purgatori and the novelization of the first story arc of The Boys comic series.
For horror lovers, this sale includes the work of fan-favorite author Nancy A. Collins as she explores a world where the last remnants of Vampirella's homeworld have come to invade the Earth in Vampirella: Blood Invasion. Then Dan Wickline takes the Daughter of Drakulon to Hong Kong where she must team with a new heroine to stop the resurrection of an ancient malevolent force in Vampirella: The Blood Dragon. And for fans of the CHAOS! Comics' demon queen, find out how Sakkara goes from a simple slave girl to ruling ancient Egypt in Purgatori: Chaos Rising.
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GEM MINT COLLECTIBLES TEAMS WITH DYNAMITE FOR HIS FIRST EXCLUSIVE VARIANT
Dynamite is linking up with fan-favorite comic book and collectibles YouTuber Gem Mint Collectibles for his first-ever exclusive variant cover. Featuring a stunning Vampirella by artist Ken Haeser and incorporating Gem's signature diamond imagery, fans can get this limited collectible comic on Indiegogo now!
"I'm beyond excited to work with Dynamite for my first exclusive cover!" said Stephen Small aka Gem Mint. "Ken did a great job delivering my vision of Vampirella holding a gem surrounded by loot. I know fans of the channel and Dynamite are going to dig this unique cover!"
Today Gem Mint Collectibles is one of the foremost destinations for comic book, graphic novel, statue and trading card collectors on YouTube. Gem got his start on Instagram in 2014 building up his name by selling and trading comics and key issues. Then he kicked off his channel on YouTube and just a couple years later is rounding the corner on 100 thousand subscribers and 15 million views. Fans come to him for his laid back personality, fun streams and discussions with his wife Phie, and all the latest news and reviews. With a specialty in unboxing and analyzing the biggest statues, biggest books and keeping fans updated on the biggest keys, he's an essential source for collectors.
For his first-ever exclusive variant cover, Dynamite brought in acclaimed and multitalented creator Ken Haeser. He's a graduate of the prestigious Kubert School of cartoon and graphic art and is best known for his creator-owned series The Living Corpse. His diverse, adaptable style has graced the covers, interiors, and scripts of such wide ranging properties as Grumpy Cat, Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Back to the Future, and much more.
The Indiegogo campaign offers a bounty of options for all kinds of collectors. ...
DYNAMITE: GREG HILDEBRANDT HOMAGES HIS ICONIC STAR WARS PAINTING WITH RED SONJA
Dynamite is proud to announce the latest instant classic, fully painted comic book cover from legendary artist Greg Hildebrandt. His latest masterpiece uses Red Sonja to pay homage to his world-famous "Star Wars" poster from over 40 years ago. And it's available right now on Kickstarter!
"I was honored to work with Nicky and the Dynamite team on this Kickstarter campaign," said artist Greg Hildebrandt. "When they told me it was Red Sonja and explained what they wanted, I really got into the project. It's fun for me to paint a badass woman with a sword. Then seeing the final product and what they are doing with the various covers made it a complete package for the fans. My fans and Red Sonja's fans! Hope you enjoy the art."
Often working alongside his twin brother Tim as the "Brothers Hildebrandt," Greg has always had close ties to comics. After building a strong reputation with works like their cherished Lord of the Rings calendar artwork, their painting appeared on the cover or inside such early boundary-pushing comics magazines as Heavy Metal and Epic Illustrated. In the 1990s the pair, jointly and separately, rose to the top of the industry with their in-demand cover art. An entire generation of fans connected with their work through the popular 1994 Marvel Masterpieces trading cards.
Almost every single person familiar with popular culture can recognize one major piece from the Hildebrandts. Commissioned to paint a new theatrical poster for the original Star Wars film's 1977 UK release, the twins finished it up in a tight 36-hour window. The image played a crucial role in one of the defining fandoms of the 20th century and beyond, and today the She-Devil with a Sword finds herself in those same footprints.
To complete this classic ...
DYNAMITE: VAMPIRELLA & RED SONJA CELEBRATE VALENTINE'S DAY IN 2021
Dynamite announces a duo of romantic special one-shots for February, starring its flagship heroines, Red Sonja and Vampirella. Fans will think Cupid is hiding in their pull list!
The She-Devil With a Sword celebrates the season in a special story by Bill Willingham (Fables, Robin) and Giuessepe Cafaro (Catwoman, Suicide Squad). The creative duo reunites following their collaboration on the Vampirella: Trial of the Soul one-shot that featured the first appearance of Prester John.
Sonja is faced with the ultimate dilemma, as her arch-nemesis, Kulan Gath is suddenly... her greatest admirer? Is there more at play here than her eyes can see? Sonja will face her greatest challenge resisting the urge to kill a love that can not die.
In addition to the perfect fit of Joseph Michael Linsner for a cover, and a cosplay photo from Savannah Polson, Jimmy Broxton joins with a genius cover homaging the classic romance comics of earlier eras.
Over in a terrifying alternate reality and Vampirella's special, the Daughter of Drakulon has married Dracula and the world faces a dark crisis like no other. The king of the vampires has subjected humanity to cattle for his people, and his bride has sworn a sacred oath to him. However, hope survives with a rebellion brewing in the shadows. Who is the mysterious Bloodwing and why does Dracula fear her so much? And will she return in future stories? (Yes!)
Prolific Vampirella writer Tom Sniegoski brings in comics newcomer Jeannine Acheson to co-write this tale ripped from the Book of Prophecy, following successful collaborations in prose. They're joined by rising artist Marco Ramos.
Sniegoski added, "Working on any Vampirella project is something ...
DYNAMITE: SONJAVERSAL BRINGS AN INFINITE NUMBER OF SONJAS TOGETHER
Everyone's favorite She-Devil With a Sword, Red Sonja, is back in the new series Sonjaversal this February - but this time she's joined by many, many Sonja's of all colors and more!
Critically acclaimed writer Christopher Hastings (Unbelievable Gwenpool, Adventure Time), artist Pasquale Qualano (Dejah Thoris), and letterer/designer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou have assembled to depict this cataclysmic crisis threatening the entire multiverse. This self-described "most important comic book to ever come out in the history of the world" cannot be missed by fans of crossovers and mashups that dial it up to eleven.
"My favorite projects are the ones where I ask 'How are they letting me do this?' and in this case, Dynamite isn't just letting me do this, they've explicitly asked me to," said writer Christopher Hastings. "Our mission with Sonjaversal is to go as big as possible, and our only enemy is restraint. That said, I'm just the writer, and I can say things like 'Red Sonja jumps out of Blue Sonja's helicopter to drive her sword through Giant Ape Sonja's gargantuan skull!' all day, but it means nothing without Pasquale to make it look amazing. I can't wait for everyone to see what he does with this comic."
It's roll call time. The classic Red Sonja that everyone knows and loves going back nearly 50 years is front and center of course. This time she's joined by Blue Sonja, ripped right out of a 1980s action blockbuster, with big guns, a big bike, and bigger explosions. How about Green Sonja, aka the She-Devil With a Dinosaur? Or mecha pilot Sonja? Others that fans will meet include Orange Sonja, Saint Sonja, Hell Sonja, and countless others. Only limited by ...
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Rian Johnson Star Wars trilogy cancelled.
By Unofficial Who,
February 15, 2019 in Film, TV & Radio
Alex W.
I kind of assumed that this was over when he went off to do a trilogy of southern private detective movies. Did Disney think that the best way of handling the bad news was to just let it fade from memory?
6 hours ago, K said:
I liked the Force Awakens, but that bit where the Starkiller base blows up a planet has to be one of the vaguest bits of storytelling I've ever seen in a major film, second only to the bit later on in the same film where they can't get the last part of the map to Luke because R2D2 is asleep. It doesn't matter really, because JJ Abrams films are more about what feels emotionally right for a scene rather than what makes logical sense, but I would like to hear him explain what he thinks actually happens in those bits.
He's a dipshit. He has no thoughts.
Sarlaccfood
Well Kathleen Kennedy has just been renewed for 3 more years.
As if thousands of incels suddenly cried out on their toxic YouTube channels all at once….
Kevvy Metal
On 16/11/2021 at 15:42, K said:
Have people not noticed that the entire Star Wars Saga is full of things that make little logical sense?
Robot's that belong to the sister of the brother that they magic wander straight to while she's being chased by her evil dad.
It's a space opera matinee that's as pulpy and fantastical as it gets, and all the better for it.
I suppose the difference is that the original trilogy makes sense until you sit down and read about it on the internet, and the Abrams movies don't make sense until you sit down and read about it on the internet.
RubberJohnny
The prequels never made sense either.
19 hours ago, Alex W. said:
Thats not even remotely true, as I managed to watched the Sequel Trilogy and understand it without resorting to referring to the Internet. But I guess YMMV
24 minutes ago, RubberJohnny said:
Yeah Kid Anakin hitting on Padme is weird and creepy.
On 20/11/2021 at 13:02, Kevvy Metal said:
OK then, what does happen with R2-D2 at the end of the Force Awakens? Why does he suddenly wake up at the end and hand over the bit of the map they need? I've seen it several times, and I don't quite understand why he's been shut down or what prompts him to return to life.
Some bits of the older films don't make sense, but that's usually because one of the prequels has retroactively and clumsily changed something. I could always understand why something was happening on a scene by scene basis.
10 minutes ago, K said:
He's shut down due to his master bailing and the presence of the new hero's prompts him to come out of "sleep mode" at just the right time!
Him over hearing people talk about Luke or BB8's presence? Something prompts him to boot up.
my point is that it doesn't matter! That's what happens to give the character a grander entrance. I don't care what exact thing prompted it and I don't think it matters.
1 minute ago, Kevvy Metal said:
I don't think it matters in the grand scheme of things, but it feels a bit messy. Unless we're talking about a David Lynch film or something where it's explicitly meant to be a mystery, you should be able to say why something happens in a film. Especially in what is essentially a kids film.
That bit of the film feels like it's a loose end from previous versions of the story, where the explanation fell off between drafts and they didn't have the time to address it.
drmick
Patty Jenkins movie has also been effectively canned. I think with Wonder Woman 2 she has been found out.
I think it really, really doesn't matter. The point of it is that R2 thought everything was hopeless, so had shut down… and the presence and hope found in the new hero's wakes him up and he gets a grandiose hero moment and helps solve the problem and save the day.
Droids are presented in the Star Wars universe as being more like people, actually living characters rather than actual cold robots, so this reawakening from a slumber due to the presence of hope works for me, rather than some superfluous detail included like showing some reboot sequence or password prompt or something.
I don't think the fact that he's a droid is what makes that bit seem contrived, not that it's a terribly significant problem in terms of that movie's storytelling.
Okay, so: why does he fall asleep? I guess because he has the 90% of the map showing where Luke isn't, and probably someone read an earlier draft and complained that they could've obviously just look in the area represented by the missing piece, so they had to give him a sleepy time. So why does he have 90% of the map, and not 100%, or 0%? In fact, why is he there at all, instead of just having everyone chasing after 100% of the map? I just can't fathom what this plot point was meant to serve.
And there's loads of that across the two Abrams movies. Chewie is dead for about five minutes, then he's not. Somehow, Palpatine returned. There's a dagger which is an arrow to a box which is a map to place and it was all carefully hidden except it was also Palpatine's plan all along?
These aren't "plot holes" in the YouTube/post-2010 IMDB Goofs Page sense of the word, or anything like that, they're just really weird, wooly writing of the type that seems to have typified Abrams' film output. You get the feeling that when they were writing his films they entirely fixated on breaking the literal A-B-C of the story without much of a sense of what it was supposed to do, and so long as it was something that made literal, causal sense on the page, it was OK.
30 minutes ago, Alex W. said:
Spot-on. It's just another case of a white man failing upwards. You can direct? Have a TV show. You can manage a budget? Be a producer. You can produce? Be the show runner! You're a showrunner? Have this movie!! You've directed a movie and wrote a show outline?! Write the entire movie and direct it!!! Your last two movies were shit? Doesn't matter, you're an establishment white dude!
Here, have the Star Wars franchise.
I don't know about that, Abrams can sell a moment like few others in blockbuster cinema, and he actually gets the movies done and delivered without too much trouble. I can see why he keeps getting work.
8 minutes ago, Alex W. said:
It's the writing it and producing it (essentially, entire creative control) that's the issue rather than his directing.
1 hour ago, Alex W. said:
He falls asleep because Luke abandoned him, as then built upon in the next film.
He has all of the map, from the galactic archives but he's basically filling in what BB-8 has in the context of it being a map to Luke's whereabouts.
SeanR
A dagger with a map to the location of the box that leads to Exidor, a map that only exists BECAUSE the Death Star was destroyed and fell into that particular shape.
so it had to be created AFTERWARDS.
Sexton Hardcastle
An ancient dagger.
51 minutes ago, Sexton Hardcastle said:
They don't call it an ancient dagger in the film, at all. This is some weird Mandela effect thing.
Dirty Harry Potter
1 hour ago, Sexton Hardcastle said:
That's less than 30 years old.
Genius.
Well at least it was imbued with the power to let the holder see the ruins of Death Star 2 when they stood right in front of the ruins of Death Star 2.
Which was in the sea, yet they made a dagger that lined up perfectly with it.
Because JJ Abrams liked those bits in Indy films.
Darwock
That particular one was lifted from The Goonies.
Unofficial Who
On 17/11/2021 at 13:07, Sarlaccfood said:
I think the critics and fans will be happy enough the Rian is out.
In any case Star Wars under her stewardship has appeared to find a new way that satisfies all parties (or at least most) with the TV series entries being well regarded. I mean I loved The Last Jedi. I loved The Mandalorian. People I know that hated Last Jedi also love The Mandalorian. Everyone appears to be looking forward to the next two TV projects. Win win all round.
BitterToad
6 minutes ago, Unofficial Who said:
Just my obligatory response to you doing this every time, a lot of fans really liked Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi.
18 minutes ago, BitterToad said:
I loved it too but I read and heard so many "true fans" saying how shit it was that I just haven't watched the last instalment.
It's taken the Mandalorian and Clone Wars (at my partner's insistence) to start watching anything in the franchise again.
I can't get with the whole "good. Now sack Kathleen Kennedy and put Filoni and Favreau in charge" brigade. If anything a good leader will learn from what doesn't work and lean into what does which is what seems to be happening right now and Filoni and Favreau appear to be in the best place right now to keep running with it. They've been promoted so they can oversea several shows at once but now I'm moving into more general SW chat.
You really should watch TROS @Unofficial Who - take it from a fellow TLJ lover. Yes it's very daft and frantic and everything else but most importantly it finishes off the best part of TLJ (the Rey & Ben (& Luke (& Leia (& Han))) storyline) really nicely, especially given that they had to do Leia's bits with whatever offcuts they could find.
I've been a "true fan" since April 1978 which is when the original film arrived at my local cinema (remember those days? Kids don't know they're born etc.) and I don't think I've ever called for Kathleen Kennedy to be sacked so my credentials on this are impeccable.
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Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter, who played an instrumental role in the Mexican and modern art scene. She painted using vibrant colours in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as by European influences that include Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain and sexuality.
2 Career as an Artist and Diego Rivera
3 Communism and Death
4 Style
The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 when Kahlo was three years old. Later, however, Kahlo claimed that she was born in 1910 so people would directly associate her with the revolution.
Kahlo contracted polio at age six, which left her right leg thinner than the left, which Kahlo disguised by wearing long skirts. In 1922, Kahlo was enrolled in the Preparatoria, one of Mexico's premier schools. An important turning point in her life occurred on September 17, 1925, at age 18, when she was involved in a serious bus accident. She suffered serious injuries in the accident, including a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. An iron handrail pierced her abdomen and her uterus, which seriously damaged her reproductive ability. Although she recovered from her injuries and eventually regained her ability to walk, she was plagued by relapses of extreme pain for the remainder of her life. The pain was intense and often left her confined to a hospital or bedridden for months at a time. She underwent as many as thirty-five operations as a result of the accident, mainly on her back, her right leg and her right foot.
Career as an Artist and Diego Rivera
The accident catalysed an important change in Kahlo's life. Turning away from her studies, she began painting whilst convalescing. Kahlo approached the famous Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, to ask for guidance. They developed a strong bond, and eventually married in 1929.
Both Kahlo and Rivera had numerous extramarital affairs. The openly bisexual Kahlo had affairs with both men (including Leon Trotsky) and women; Rivera knew of and tolerated her relationships with women, but her relationships with men made him jealous. Rivera had an affair with her younger sister, Cristina, which led to the couple's divorce. They remarried in 1940.
Communism and Death
Kaho and Rivera were both active communists, inviting Leon Trosky to stay with them whilst he sought political sanctuary.
Kahlo died in 1954 of a pulmonary embolism, She had been very ill throughout the previous year and her right leg had been amputated at the knee, owing to gangrene. Later, in his autobiography, Diego Rivera wrote that the day Kahlo died was the most tragic day of his life, adding that, too late, he had realized that the most wonderful part of his life had been his love for her. He ordered for their home, La Casa Azul, in Coyoacán, Mexico, to be converted into a museum after his death.
Although she had one exhibition in New York in the 1930s, Kahlo was not recognised until the early 1980s with the onset of the artistic movement known as Neomexicanismo.
Kahlo painted in a deeply intimate and personal way, drawing on the personal tragedies she experienced, including miscarriages, physical pain and her marriage. Strongly influenced by Mexican culture, she used bright colors and dramatic symbolism. She frequently included the symbolic monkey. In Mexican mythology, monkeys are symbols of lust, but Kahlo portrayed them as tender and protective symbols. Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work.
She also combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with surrealist renderings. Kahlo created a few drawings of "portraits," but unlike her paintings, they were more abstract. At the invitation of André Breton, she went to France in 1939 and was featured at an exhibition of her paintings in Paris. The Louvre bought one of her paintings, The Frame, which was displayed at the exhibit. This was the first work by a 20th century Mexican artist ever purchased by the internationally renowned museum.
In 2006, Kahlo's 1943 painting Roots set a US$5.6 million auction record for a Latin American work.
Herrera, Hayden (1983). A Biography of Frida Kahlo. New York: HarperCollins. p. 5. ISBN 978-0060085896.
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Ronnen, Meir (2006-04-20). "Frida Kahlo's father wasn't Jewish after all". The Jerusalem Post. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498883340&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull. Retrieved 2009-09-02.