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An introduction to Constitutional Law 100 Supreme Court cases everyone should know
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100 Supreme Court Cases
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores(2014)
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The Roberts Court (2010-2016). Seated, from left to right: Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Standing, from left to right: Sonia Sotomayor, Steven G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito, and Elena Kagan.
The Green Family
Hobby Lobby objected to covering four forms of contraception.
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court
The Little Sisters of the Poor
Hobby Lobby operated nearly 600 craft stores nationwide. The company was founded by David and Barbara Green. The Green family owned the corporation in a trust. Before the ACA was enacted, Hobby Lobby's insurance policy already covered most forms of birth control. However, board members shared a religious objection to paying for certain other contraceptives, such as Plan B and ella. They considered such products to be "abortifacients," or abortion-inducing drugs. Hobby Lobby and other religious for-profit corporations challenged the so-called "contraceptive mandate" in court. They argued that the regulations imposed a substantial burden on their free exercise of religion, in violation of RFRA.
The Court ruled for Hobby Lobby by a 5-4 vote. Justice Alito wrote the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas.
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As part of the For Freedoms - 50 State Initiative, 1708 Gallery commissioned a public artwork in the form of a billboard by artist Sable Elyse Smith. The billboard is located in the historic neighborhood of Jackson Ward, at the corner of Jackson Street and Chamberlayne Avenue.
Throughout the planning, production, and programming of this site-responsive work, a number of exciting moments occurred both at 1708 Gallery and within the neighboring community. Upon reflection —and due to the strength Smith's work— this project became a generator of important, necessary conversations.
Jackson Ward, the neighborhood in which the billboard stands, is a profoundly important historical place –especially for black history in Richmond. The first chartered, black-owned and operated bank in the history of the United States opened in 1889 at 105 W. Jackson Street. Its founder, William Washington Browne, proclaimed, "In 1860 slaves, in 1890 bankers." In 2019, this neighborhood is changing. Yet, as Smith's work echoes in her presentation of the Black Panther Party's Ten-Point Program final point: "We Want Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice And Peace," Jackson Ward is still a landmark and a testament to how communities undergoing social, political, and demographic transformation, to varying levels of detriment, can come to together to collectively preserve and strengthen their cultural heritage.
Sable Elyse Smith, For Freedoms - 50 State Initiative Billboard, 2018-2019.
This project's presence prompted new and continuing alliances between prominent institutions in the neighborhood, specifically the Historic Jackson Ward Association (HJWA) and 1708 Gallery. Lines of communication were opened and fortified by thorough and committed action. Through this project, we were able to critically address the process and impact that contemporary public art has in a rapidly gentrifying, yet powerfully cultured place in Richmond. In a city where there is historic, catastrophic racial inequality, abuse, and erasure, and in a current political climate where extreme divisiveness is status quo, this project emphasized the strength in collective action for the greater good.
The work stimulated many interactions that may have otherwise not occurred. More than 80 people came together for a community discussion about the impact of public art like the For Freedoms Project. More than just an expression of goodwill, the discussion exemplified what can be done with and through the language of contemporary art. This was an opportunity to directly address the activity of inclusion and it was a reminder that, as neighbors, we can be better at neighboring. Among the panelists and the audience, it was deemed imperative that we continue to partner in various forms of community engagement. We looked at ways in which arts organizations like 1708 Gallery can be real assets to residents of their communities, and how we can be catalysts on a broader level for inclusion of all forms for cultural institutions in the neighborhood.
The artwork's strength lies in both its reflection of integral histories of black communities (near and far), and its ability to bring together multiple voices with the aim of mutual support and empowerment. The For Freedoms – 50 State Initiative has opened up the ability for institutions to collaborate on a national scale, and we look forward to working with artists and more collaborators for the next iteration in 2020.
The billboard by Sable Elyse Smith, commissioned by 1708 Gallery as part of the For Freedoms - 50 State Initiative, is on view at the corner of Jackson Street and Chamberlayne Avenue in Historic Jackson Ward through February 3, 2019.
Park C. Myers is a curator from Houston, TX, formerly based in New York City and Brussels. Myers is currently The Royall Family Curator at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA. He studied Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art and holds an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.


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Your heart and head are in constant communication but our head/brain, has been programmed over eons to resist the promptings of the heart. We want to progress but keep thinking the intellect will provide the answer. It can not. It is a part of the body and a vital tool to implement the guiding of spirit as we each evolve along our unique path.. Without it we would not be able to implement the complex ideas sent from the super intelligence of the heart/spirit. Our error comes from putting head/brain before the impulse of heart/spirit. I believe the physical heart contains a spiritual fractal of the magnificent spirit we actually are.
Come From Your Heart!!!! This phrase baffles many and I'd presume to suggest that it means using your intuition rather than your intellect. Be assured it does not in any way put down the intellect. My premise is that if we are intuitively guided, we place our selves in a position where the intellect can properly implement the intuitive choice. First I see the body as a creation for our experience on this planet. How else could we as eternal spirit be able to function. We must have a physical vehicle to function in a physical environment.
I imagine the brain/intellect/head as a mini computer given as a tool to enable the body to deal with simple everyday tasks. The Heart/gut are super capacity main frame computers with unlimited capacity. Most of our parents instructed us to, "Use your head". A better injunction would have been, "Use your Heart".
Have you ever heard the statement , "He had a head felt feeling."? Not likely and yet we constantly speak of heart felt guidance or a gut feeling. When followed, these prompts are never wrong. They seem to flow and we arrive smoothly at the desired destination. Please recall that each time you were moved intuitively, and listened, the results were correct in the particular situation. Also, once you accepted your prompt/decision, your head/brain implemented the details with ease. In essence,through the heart brain connection, the heart sent a pattern to the brain which it radiated setting up a vibratory pattern to achieve the best result.
So, we have, and always have had an integrated mechanism to simplify life. When you get an intuition or heart felt feeling, you "know that you know". The intuitive faculty is our spirit guiding us, while the head is the physical tool to implement. For years we have been told that intuition/second sight is the work of some unseen force and should be ignored. It was dangerous as it allowed you to think for yourself. It separated you and gave you an aura of self confidence. Those who wanted to keep you following the herd/tribe cast you out for being different. What a beautiful control mechanism and they burned witches at the stake; over 30,000 at last estimate, to get this point solidified.
We've been brain washed into thinking we must never deviate from the norm by actually taking responsibility for ourselves. This control most often begins at child birth. Note; anyone who deviates from the norm of their belief system or leaves their organization, or tribe is usually shunned and often made to feel both uncomfortable and unworthy. Their lives are often difficult in the extreme as they struggle with their decision to either be independent sovereign beings taking charge of their own lives, or returning to the comfort of directed living. Often they shut down their heart and allow themselves to be led back into the comfort of controlling beliefs. They join the masses, ever programmed, and waiting for something "out there"to save them, while all the while the answer is within!
Self reliance, which is actually relying on ourselves as spirit, and truly coming from the heart is not a simple task. It requires that we question everything we've been taught. We are alone until we understand and integrate our heartfelt prompts into our daily lives. As we integrate these prompts we recognize more and more that we are one in spirit, and really are spirit. We cease relying on external forces as we realize that coming from the heart is answering the call of our soul.
Many will continue to feel the need and comfort of an intercessor and stay where they are until the lessons/experiences they chose are complete. This complex concept will be visited another time. However, once people break free and see they are spirit here having an experience their perception of life changes and they are liberated.
The details/insights I've received revealing the validity of coming from the heart could fill a book and each leads to more discussion.
We tend to intellectually complicate the concept that we are pure spirit operating in a body. Most continue to look outside themselves for "the answer". Remember; You are who you seek! Accept yourself. Please get out of the head/intellect and into your heart.
YOU ARE SPIRIT! Immortal, Eternal, Infinite, and Sovereign.


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Brian congratulated them on their first new music in years
January 11, 2019 - 11:52 GMT Hollie Richardson Dancing on Ice star Brian McFadden has reached out to former band Westlife on Twitter after they released their first new music in eight years.
Brian McFadden has reached out to his former bandmates Westlife, who have released their first new music in eight years. The 38-year-old star - who is currently taking part in Dancing on Ice - shared the band's new single, along with the encouraging comment: "Love it! Great song great production. The boys are back!" However, both Brian and the band have made it very clear in the past that the dad-of-two won't be rejoining the group, despite his obvious support for them. In an interview with the Metro, lead singer Shane Filan said: "He left the band 15 years ago, we were only five years in and kids at the time. We went on to become a band for another eight or nine years after that. It would be very weird to have another person in the band again, some of us haven't seen Brian in a very long time. We haven't fallen out with Brian either. It's like we all went to a different school and he went another way. Brian left a long time ago so we're moving forward not backwards."
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Brian with Westlife when they first started out
Brian left the group after Westlife's fourth album in 2004. At the time, he told media: "It's very, very hard to juggle two lives when you've got a family and being in a band like Westlife, it is a huge commitment. To be honest for the last year, especially since Lily was born, I haven't really been able to commit 100% to Westlife and I haven't been able to commit 100% to my family, so I kinda felt it was unfair to both. I felt it was the right time to stand back."
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Taiwan slams 'evil neighbour' China after missiles fly over island
A projectile is launched from an unspecified location in China during long-range live-fire drills by the army of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Thursday, Aug 4, 2022. (Photo: AP/Xinhua/Lai Qiaoquan)
05 Aug 2022 12:31PM (Updated: 05 Aug 2022 02:27PM)
TAIPEI: Taiwan condemned its "evil neighbour" on Friday (Aug 5) after China fired multiple missiles into its surrounding waters, as many as four of which flew over the island's capital Taipei in an unprecedented escalation during live-fire exercises.
During Thursday's military exercises, which continued Friday, China fired ballistic missiles and deployed both fighter jets and warships around Taiwan.
The People's Liberation Army declared multiple no-go danger zones around Taiwan, straddling some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world and at some points coming within 20km of the island's shores.
Beijing has said the exercises will continue until midday Sunday, and Taipei reported that Chinese fighter jets and ships crossed the "median line" that runs down the Taiwan Strait on Friday morning.
"As of 11am, multiple batches of Chinese warplanes and warships conducted exercises around the Taiwan Strait and crossed the median line of the strait," Taipei's defence ministry said in a statement.
The median line is an unofficial but once largely adhered-to border that runs down the middle of the Taiwan Strait, which separates Taiwan and China.
Chinese incursions have become more common since Beijing declared in 2020 that the unofficial border no longer existed.
Beijing has called its war games a "necessary" response to a visit to the self-ruled island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but Washington countered that China's leaders had "chosen to overreact".
Pelosi defended her visit Friday, saying Washington will "not allow" China to isolate Taiwan.
"We have said from the start that our representation here is not about changing the status quo here in Asia, changing the status quo in Taiwan," she told reporters in Tokyo on the final leg of an Asia tour.
Taiwan's premier Su Tseng-chang, meanwhile, called for allies to push for de-escalation.
"(We) didn't expect that the evil neighbour next door would show off its power at our door and arbitrarily jeopardise the busiest waterways in the world with its military exercises," he told reporters.
Taiwan decries China's 'illegitimate, irresponsible' live-fire military drills
Commentary: China's reaction to Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit is a significant changing of the status quo
In pictures: Scenes from both sides of the Taiwan Strait as China conducts unprecedented military exercises
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China's drills involved a "conventional missile firepower assault" in waters to the east of Taiwan, the Chinese military said.
The state-run Xinhua news agency said the Chinese army "flew more than 100 warplanes including fighters and bombers" during the exercises, as well as "over 10 destroyers and frigates".
State broadcaster CCTV reported that Chinese missiles had flown directly over Taiwan.
Japan also claimed that of the nine missiles it had detected, four were "believed to have flown over Taiwan's main island".
Taipei's military said it would not confirm missile flight paths, in a bid to protect its intelligence capabilities and not allow China "to intimidate us".
"TEMPERATURE'S PRETTY HIGH"
China's ruling Communist Party views Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to one day take it, by force if necessary.
But the scale and intensity of the drills have triggered outrage in the United States and other democracies.
"China has chosen to overreact and use the speaker's visit as a pretext to increase provocative military activity in and around the Taiwan Strait," John Kirby, a White House spokesman, told reporters.
"The temperature's pretty high," but tensions "can come down very easily by just having the Chinese stop these very aggressive military drills", he added.
Japan lodged a formal diplomatic complaint against Beijing, with five of the missiles believed to have landed in its exclusive economic zone.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called China's exercises a "serious problem that impacts our national security and the safety of our citizens" and called for an "immediate cancellation of the military drills".
But Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the "flagrant provocation" by the United States had set an "egregious precedent".
The manoeuvres are taking place along some of the busiest shipping routes on the planet, used to supply vital semiconductors and electronic equipment produced in East Asian factory hubs to global markets.
Taiwan's Maritime and Port Bureau has warned ships to avoid the areas being used for the Chinese drills.
"The shutting down of these transport routes - even temporarily - has consequences not only for Taiwan, but also trade flows tied to Japan and South Korea," Nick Marro, the Economist Intelligence Unit's lead analyst for global trade, wrote in a note.
Taiwan said the drills would disrupt 18 international routes passing through its flight information region while several international airlines told AFP they would divert flights.
Analysts broadly agree that despite all its aggressive posturing, Beijing does not want an active military conflict against the United States and its allies over Taiwan - just yet.
"The last thing Xi wants is an accidental war ignited," Titus Chen, an associate professor of political science at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan, told AFP.
SIA, Scoot cancel flights over 'evolving airspace restrictions' amid Chinese military exercises near Taiwan
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Disappointed we did not get to travel the waters. The staff and food were excellent as well as housekeeping.
Very disappointing!!!! - While we know Viking can not control the water levels of the river, they could have notified us and offered to let us re-schedule at a later date. The river level has been a problem all summer. We spent a lot of money and only got one day on the river. Basically had a bus tour that was not enjoyable.
Most favorite cruise we have taken. Great ship, great tour guides, great excursions, great food.
The included excursions were pretty good for the most part. The guides were kind of hit or miss and having a good one made all the difference. Do a lot of research on your own on each destination before you go and have a game plan. Use the underground in the big cities. Cheap, clean and safe. If the included excursion sounds like a clunker... take off on your own.
The services by the Crew were outstanding. The Ship is very well laid out, easy to get around and the stateroom is compact but comfortable. The food was good and plentiful.
The docking facility at Amsterdam was awful. It is located in an industrial area with cargo ships with no view of the City. Also in more than one instance no view was possible because other ships were joined together along side at the dock. The river(s) we traveled were along industrial corrirdors and because of the flat topographic nature of the land and lack of a narrative we never knew where we were or what if any landmarks we should have been made aware of. One of our optional tours was entitled 'Tulips and Windmills' and a promotional photo showed the historical Windmill and Tulips. It turned out to be a tour of a tulip bulb producing farm with no flowers and the windmill was a modern wind turbine. This itinerary was not up to the 2 previous scenic Viking cruises on the Danube or Rhine.
Our first Viking river cruise was disappointing. Because of low water levels it became more of a bus tour than a river cruise. We were able to stop at 3 of the 6 designated stops. Further, stacking up ships next to each other totally negated our investment in a balcony room. When we were docked we looked at the balcony of the ship next to us instead of the shore of the Danube. The personnel on board were excellent from the cabin stewart, waiter, piano player to the cruise director. No complaints there.
On November 10, 2018 we concluded what we consider to be the worse cruise we have ever taken This cruise did not conform to what was sold to us in the Viking advertising and agreement. This was a bus trip with overnight stays at floating hotels, minimal river views, missed excursions due to significant time wasted in bus travel, and blocked views once on board due to Viking's standard practice of double docking. Only a few days before departure did Viking disclose that our cruise could be impacted by low Danube water levels. However, evidence obtained once on board the Egil, Gullveig, and the Bragi from Viking employees and leaders clearly indicated that Viking leadership knew of adverse river conditions going back at least to July 2018 and never shared this information with us or others. A cruise line that is ethical and committed to business integrity values would have shared such impactful information with booked travelers and offered either to reschedule, or cancel with a full refund of monies paid. Clearly based upon our experience, Viking is NOT an ethical cruise line committed to business integrity values. We do not recommend Viking for ANY cruise, anywhere based upon this experience. Cruise details… 1.	Our Danube River cruise was not a cruise experience; rather it was a bus/road trip where substantial vacation time was lost getting from point to point to arrive at the next floating hotel (i.e., VIKING ship Gullveig and then Bragi). Accordingly, many of the planned and promised cruise encounters were missed, including (but not limited) failure to see the Wachau Valley Austria, failure to dock in Pasau Germany proper (although many other similar sized ships were docked there as part of their on-going journey), and failure to cruise into glorious Budapest. In lieu thereof, we were forced into bus travel to move on to meet the next ship. This was not a river cruise by any shape of the imagination. 2.	As a result of a late arrival, we could not participate in the rescheduled 4 pm excursion to the Gottweig Abbey as it would now be conducted after dark; we were concerned about safety. As it turned out one of our travelers had a serious fall and was injured due to the dark/unsafe conditions surrounding the exterior of the Abbey. 3.	Instead of spending seven nights on the Gullveig as booked and unpacking once, we were on three ships for seven nights with multiple unpackings, repacking's, and two four-hour bus trips each to meet the next floating hotel. Also, instead of docking in Passau, we docked in the remote village of Staubing and had to travel to Passau by bus for more than 90 minutes with a similar return trip (again more lost vacation time – more stress). Also, more time was wasted waiting on the bus as the Gullveig was late arriving into Vienna. 4.	Even with the limited time on board the ships, our French Balcony view was fully obstructed frequently due to VIKING ship double docking where all we could see was another ship flush against our balcony within 12 inches. This created a dismal feeling of being imprisoned and clearly precluded river and shore views. 5.	We had clearly communicated to VIKING and again aboard ship that I had dietary restrictions, not withstanding this prior communication staff continued to provide me with normal/undesirable meals. 6.	Interviews with staff and employees of all three ships clearly revealed that the river conditions that VIKING sighted as the basis for non-performance were known by VIKING senior leadership at least as far back as July 2018. 7.	VIKING knew that they could not provide the cruise experience they promised yet continued to operate in gross disregard to known conditions. VIKING leadership knew that it did not have or was unlikely to secure local governmental authority to pass through needed river locks to continue the journey it had offered to its' customers. Yet it continued in gross disregard to this prior knowledge. Also, VIKING on board ship senior leadership boasted to passengers in an open meeting that there was no need to worry about "ship swaps" as it had perfected the "famous ship swap process" over many months. Another example demonstrating significant advance prior knowledge of the operational problem, and failure to inform booked passengers early on to afford a cancellation opportunity. 8.	Instead of this vacation being a pleasant stress relieving experience, it caused significant stress and was a source of constant anxiety. As noted above, there was a significant gap between what was offered/promised by VIKING and what was provided. Overall this was a bus excursion road trip at best, certainly not a river cruise. It was totally stressful, and fully lacked the relaxing experience one would expect from being on a river cruise. We do NOT recommend Viking to anyone for any cruise based upon this experience and their lack of ethics and business integrity.
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Ultimate Concerns
David Sincerbox	 November 4, 2019
Everybody has them. Do we have the right ones?
Events in the news drew me back to a religious studies course I took a number of years ago in which I read Paul Tillich who defined religion as "one's ultimate concerns." In Tillich's definition, the ultimate concern of religion should be something transcendent, holy and numinous. But I now see that it can also be applied to things that are not holy or numinous. One's ultimate concerns can be pleasure, or power, or money, or sex. One's ultimate concern can be focused on a person, or even on the cult of personality, as it was with so many Germans who blindly followed Hitler. One's ultimate concerns can be focused on one's obsessions, as it was with Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. One's ultimate concerns are those things which predominantly occupy one's mind, determine one's actions, and shape one's desires.
At its heart, our ultimate concerns define our core values. Let's take the example of a politician whose only desire is to get reelected. If that is the politician's ultimate concern, that politician's principles will change color like a chameleon who only wants to blend into the current political environment. Just consider how many politicians who once advocated fiscal responsibly have quickly voted in support of enormous deficits. Core values are thus subject to the times.
Many previous presidents displayed strong and admirable core values, despite their very human failures and flaws. We saw these strong values in Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Raegan, and Jimmy Carter. Despite his many sexual indiscretions, we even saw them in John Kennedy, especially during the Cuban missile crisis.
Service to a higher cause, one that comes out of virtue and character, should be the ultimate concern of us all, but especially to the Christian. A person does not need to be a Christian to be a person of character. The ultimate concern of the Christian should be advancing the Kingdom of God, as proclaimed by Jesus, and worshipping and serving its King, the reigning Christ. This ultimate concern is holy and transcendent. And, in worship, it can be numinous.
When this is the Christian's ultimate concerns, the Christian's core values are shaped and formed by loving God and loving neighbor. Love should thus be the visible evidence of our ultimate concern. Unfortunately, too few Christians really understand that only through discipleship can their core values be changed. Too many live lives dedicated to pleasure, to comfort, to worldly politics, and to temporal as opposed to eternal values.
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Maroon 5 Rock Out to 'One More Night' + 'Payphone' on the 'Today' Show
Cristin Maher
Cristin Maher Published: June 14, 2013
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Maroon 5 stopped by Rockefeller Center in N.Y.C. this morning (June 14) to perform a few of their 'Overexposed' hits for a crowd of fans gathered at the 'Today' show.
Hot Matt Lauer introduced the band, including a scruffy Adam Levine, who quickly began singing the band's chart-topping 2012 single 'One More Night.'
As usual, Levine's vocals were spot-on as he effortlessly sailed through the song's super high falsetto of "oh, oh, oh's." He was backed by his Maroon 5 bandmates, who all sounded as excellent as their singer. No wonder the plaza was absolutely packed with screaming fans! These guys really know how to put on a great live show.
Lauer and his co-host Savannah Guthrie asked the M5 dudes a few questions in between songs, with Adam Levine doing most of the talking. Guthrie asked about his role on 'The Voice' as a coach, and if he ever tried to give the other guys in the band any pointers. Um, seeing as how Levine's known most of his bandmates since high school, that'd be pretty awkward... and Adam seemed to agree with us. Without missing a beat he responded, "No ... I don't do that." James Valentine joked about it, replying with a simple, "No comment."
Later on, the M5 guys performed 'Payphone,' and once again, Levine could've have blown the roof off (if there was one) with his pitch-perfect falsetto.
Maroon 5 will head out on tour with Kelly Clarkson starting August 1, with their first stop scheduled in St. Louis, Mo. at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. In the meantime, make sure you check them out on 'TODAY.'
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The Great Believers: Rebecca Makkai
"This disease has magnified all our mistakes."
Rebecca Makkai's splendid novel, The Great Believers moves back and forth between two timelines while exploring themes of survival, loss, and ethics. I read The Hundred Year House back in 2014. I enjoyed it, but The Great Believers is a better, richer, more mature novel.
The novel opens in 1985 Chicago. Nico, the close friend of Yale Tishman, has died of AIDS. Yale, the development director of an art gallery, and his partner, newspaper owner Charlie attend a party organized for Nico's friends. Nico's death was divisive. His family never accepted that Nico was gay, never accepted Nico's gay partner, Terrence. It was only "in his last days, they'd claimed him," and now Nico is dead, Terrence isn't welcome at Nico's funeral vigil, so Nico's friends gather to remember Nico at a party.
While the party is an important event in the lives of Nico's family and his little sister, Fiona, Yale, one of the novel's two central characters is unaware that the party heralds an important turning point in his life. As the months pass, friends became "human dominoes," as the disease decimates men in Yale's social circle. In his professional life. Yale tries to secure an art collection worth several million dollars from an elderly woman whose late husband attended Northwestern.
The elderly woman, Nora, the great-aunt of Fiona, is drawn to Yale for several reasons. Nora, who was at one point an artist, turned to modelling in post WWI Paris. She lost many artist friends to the war, and she notes the loss they represent. These were not famous artists; they died unknown–their talent lost to war.
Every time I've gone to a gallery, the rest of my life, I've thought about the works that weren't there. Shadow-paintings, you know, that no one can see but you. But there are all these happy young people around you and you realize no, they're not bereft. They don't see the empty spaces.
Nora's family don't want her to donate the art to a university, and so they thwart Yale as much as possible. Yale treads a slippery slope in this situation: is it ethical to encourage Nora to donate her unique art collection? Is it ethical to work around the family and conceal the value of the collection? Yale becomes embroiled in a political nightmare when a prestigious donor to the university steps in to intervene. Yale walks a fine line, and it's complicated by his slippery closet gay-boss and a new male intern.
The second storyline takes place in 2015, 30 years later. Fiona, now 51, is divorced, estranged from her only daughter and works in a resale shop. All of the young men in the gay circle which included her brother are gone. Fiona survived an epidemic, witnessed its cruel devastation first hand, and yet to most people she speaks to, AIDS is something they've heard about in a vague way.
Fiona had spent an inordinate amount of her adult life engaged in two different ongoing fantasies. One, especially lately, was the exercise in which she'd walk through Chicago and try to bring it back as it was in 1984, 1985. She'd start by picturing brown cars on the street. Brown cars parked nose-to-tail, mufflers falling off. Instead of the Gap, the Woolworth's with the lunch counter, Wax Trax! Records, where the oral surgeon was now. And if she could see all that, then she could see her boys on the sidewalks in bomber jackets, calling after each other, running to cross before the light changed. She could see Nico in the distance, walking toward her.
The Great Believers captures the ignorance, the paranoia and the fear of the AIDS epidemic, conveying the atmosphere in Yale's community of friends, many already ostracized from their families, with intensity and compassion. Yale's circle of friends have just begun to hear about the disease and prevention, and while the threat of contagion sparks a range of reactions, for some it's already too late. While professionally Yale struggles with the ethics of working around Nora's family, the plot also examines personal responsiblity to sexual partners. The novel subtly argues for a society that accepts homosexuality; the closet married gays here complicate a situation that is already marked with terrible stigma.
While this may sound like some sort of staged, preachy social awareness novel, it isn't. Reading the novel brought back (like a slap across the face) how people treated gays as lepers, certain that breathing the same air could bring the 'gay plague' down on their heads.
This is a good, character-driven story. The novel goes back and forth in time, following Yale and then Fiona's story. The two plotlines don't quite come together–although there was a moment when I thought they might mesh. Yale's story thread was the stronger of the two, simply because the stakes are so much higher. Yale is a marvellous character, a flawed tragic hero who never quite grasps human duplicity.
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Tagged as AIDS, american fiction, Chicago, Paris
The Immortalists: Chloe Benjamin
"And if there's magic in the world, there's magic beyond it."
Chloe Benjamin's novel, The Immortalists begins in 1969 with the four Gold children Varya, 13, Daniel, 11, Klara, 9, Simon, 7 who head out, pressured by Daniel to have their fortunes told by a travelling psychic. Daniel has heard that the fortune-teller can predict death dates.
The practical minded Varya asks "What is it's bad news? What if she says you'll die before you're even a grown-up?"
"Then it would better to know, " said Daniel. "So you could get everything done before."
But would the knowledge of the date of your death 'help' or hinder you? You won't know if the date is correct or not until it arrives. I was intrigued by the premise of the novel as many years ago I had a friend who had a similar experience. He refused to tell me the date he was given, but it haunted him. After seeing how traumatized he was by this experience, I would rather not know. Of course, we all come with a hidden expiration date, and the novel asks whether or not knowing (or thinking you know) the day of your death makes a difference as to how you choose to live your life. What if the date is wrong? How does this knowledge, true or false, impact behaviour?
In a tatty apartment building, the children are each, separately, told the day of their deaths. Although they keep the information initially secret, it impacts their behavior in the years to come.
Simon Gold as a teenager who is facing joining the family's "Tailor and Dressmaking" business, instead opts to run off to the heady freedom of San Francisco in the late 70s-early 80s. There, underage Simon finds work as a dancer in a gay bar, and he meets an older man. Meanwhile his sister Klara who runs off to San Francisco with Simon gets a job as temp. while dreaming of becoming an illusionist. Klara turns to magic in a dangerous and obsessive attempt to cross the barriers between the living and the dead.
The second brother Daniel, quiet, steady and serious becomes an army doctor post 9-11 and Varya becomes a scientist whose area of expertise/interest is longevity research. (This involves Rhesus monkeys, so reader beware). In her longevity research, quantity becomes more important than quality.
The Immortalists, beginning with Simon, follows the siblings on their life paths. Each sibling keeps the death date in his/her head, always conscious of it, even if they disbelieve it. Simon, who is told that he will die young, certainly takes this information and runs with it. Hurls himself towards it might even be a better description.
What if the woman on Hester Street is right, and the next few years are his last? The mere thought turns his life a different color; it makes everything feel urgent, glittering, precious.
I liked the novel's premise and the mystical elements, and I loved Klara and Varya's stories, possibly because they tried to understand life in alternate ways. Daniel's section stretched credulity, and readers should be aware that in Simon's story, there's a considerable amount of sex. This is described rather clinically, not salaciously, but still, anyone intending to read this should know what they are in for. IMO, it added nothing to the book. That's not meant in a puritanical way, but these scenes did nothing for me whatsoever, and seemed, frankly, rather gratuitous.
The Immortalists asks how much we really control our lives. Would the Gold children have acted differently if they'd never met the fortune-teller? If you were told you were going to die young, would you dive right into life and to hell with the consequences or would you try to avoid disaster? Character is fate, right? Can you escape fate? We see each of the Gold children tackle those questions differently.
If you like The Immortalists, you will probably also like Daniel Kehlmann's F (or vice versa)
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Tagged as AIDS, american fiction, animal experimentation, fortune tellers, life beyond death, magic
Take Me to Paris, Johnny: John Foster
"He was like an exotic bird, the only one of his kind."
The title of John Foster's memoir, Take me to Paris, Johnny, is emblematic of the character and life of Juan Céspedes, the author's lover until Juan's death from AIDS in 1987. The two men met in New York in 1981 when John, a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, travelled to America to research a book.
The memoir begins when John Foster travels to Guantánamo to visit Juan's family. The visit which took place a year after Juan's death should have been the end of Juan's story, but in Foster's hands, it becomes the graceful introduction. It's a moving, powerful beginning: travelling to a beautiful foreign country of "red earth, banana plantations and hills that were crowned with a darker canopy of royal palms," eventually to arrive at a landscape that has a "desolate air; it was brown, scarred and smudged with a confusion of railway marshalling yards. The end of the line."
Deeply interested in dance and loathe to follow his state assigned career, Juan struggled under Cuban culture in which individualism was not encouraged, and like other young friends, Juan "more charmed than ever by the forbidden music from the radio station ar the base," decided to seek political asylum by escaping to the US naval base at Guantánamo. And it was in this fashion that Juan finally landed at age 15 in Hell's Kitchen in 1969 "where the Catholic agency had installed its Cuban refugees in a cheap apartment house."
The other residents, according to Juan 's calculation, consisted of 25 per cent ex-cons, 25 per cent drag queens and 50 percent addicts.
From 1969 until 1981, when Juan met John Foster, Juan's history is patchy but involved attempts at establishing a professional dance career and a series of patrons–including a priest, but the relationships ended perhaps because Juan's "tastes [were] too expensive or his occasional tantrums too exhausting." Juan carefully constructed narratives around these relationships:
They each occupied a space in his memory, and he referred to them habitually, and most fondly, as if they were a line of popes or kings in whose reign an event could be located. That was the way he ordered his memories, very tidily, in much the same way that he arranged his life, in little compartments, so that there would be no unnecessary confusion or unpleasantness
Foster met Juan when the latter was homeless, and a one-night stand morphed into a long-distance relationship. Finally Juan, already ill with various mysterious ailments, moved to Australia where his tenuous residency teetered on a bureaucratic foundation. Some of the details regarding the illness were difficult to read, but Foster powerfully brings home the times and the fears. I'll mention the Grim Reaper ad here and luckily and coincidentally I saw it recently on an Australian television programme. I'm glad I saw it as I wouldn't have understood Foster's reactions to the ad; it's one of those things you have to see for yourself.
Take Me To Paris, Johnny is Juan's story, as the author intended, but ultimately it's the story of a relationship. We see Juan through the eyes of Foster: an exotic figure with a taste for drama, engaging, entertaining, a man whose very existence defies his humble hard-scrabble beginnings.
We walked home, stopping off at the corner store to buy a bottle of Lucozade. According to the label Beecham Bros supplied this energizing drink by appointment to HM the Queen, which Juan imagined she probably swigged in large quantities to fortify her in her battles with Mrs Thatcher.
While Foster remains in the background, refusing to assign blame or guilt to Juan, their relationship most effectively holds a mirror up to reflect back Foster's character to the reader. Author John Foster wanted to create a story that transcended death and decay (the afterword by John Rickard goes into some explanation on this issue), and it's through this afterword that Foster's character shines through. He was a remarkable human being–full of love, tenderness and grace.
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Tagged as AIDS, australian non fiction, Memoirs
The Fall of Princes: Robert Goolrick
I couldn't pass up Robert Goolrick's The Fall of Princes, the story of a former BSD ("big, swinging dick") trader from Wall Street who soared the heights in the 80s only to plummet to the lows of working in Barnes and Noble. This is his story, and this long, detailed mea culpa AA/NA style confession of a louse's fall from the pinnacle of success, a story of excess, sex, and drugs, is morbidly fascinating. And I'll note here that Goolrick, to his credit, approaches his material with restraint, not crudity, unlike The Wolf of Wall Street, so while we read about lines of cocaine and hordes of bedmates, throughout the tale there's the sense that these young traders, running out of speed, are damaging themselves more than anyone else. The mayhem carries a heavy cost from the outset and doesn't look like a great deal of decadent fun.
The chapters alternate between the narrator, using the collective 'we,' who tells the story of the aggressive, young bull trader lifestyle and the first person narrator who recalls specific incidents. The narrator lands a job at 'the Firm,' where clients "had to have $20 million" in their accounts "at all times. That's a lot of toys to play with," and these young traders repeat the words "forty or forty."
That's when you retire, they reply with that bland smile. When you reach the age of forty, or your portfolio reaches forty million. That's when you can get away clean and get your life back. What's left of it
It's an adrenaline-fueled life where sleep is a low priority, and rowdy nights are spent drinking, taking drugs, and bedding nameless women. Then when the narrator runs out of steam, he periodically boomerangs to rehab. There's also a brutal competitiveness amongst the traders which begins with the bodies most of them develop.
Thousands of hours in the world's most expensive gym, with the world's most skilled trainers, had brought my body to such a state of perfection that the women who rushed to take off their clothes in my bedroom could only gasp at the luck that had put them into my line of sight, that had made them, even for one night, the most beautiful creatures on earth, with their lithe arms and their skin like chamois and their scents.
The narrator, occasionally referred to by the name Rooney, started out his trader life after various failures as a bad artist and a bad writer, but then turns to trading when he decides that he does not want to end up as one of the "gray masses."
the place they would end up, neither richer or wiser, filled only with regret and second-tier liquor and the shreds of the dreams they no longer remembered, surprised to wake up one day and be shown the door with a tepid handshake and a future on the edge of old age and death that held only pictures of the kids and grandkids, a cruise to some out-of-season destination every three years, and the notion, which they somehow managed to believe, that this was comfort, that this was all the splendor they got for forty years of relentless drudgery and obsequiousness.
And to all this we said fuck you, we want it all, we want it now, you can drain us of our blood for all we care, but we want impossible things of impossible vintage and provenance. We want salaries equivalent to our ages multiplied by 100,000. We want to live life in a rush of fury and light, to rampage, to pillage our neighbourhoods and rape and demolish our best and closest friends
The collective 'we' sections, which at times felt like a Greek chorus describing the ebb and flow of money easily gained and easily lost, are not as powerful as the details of Rooney's golden life before he ran out of steam just as AIDS swept through his world. There's a no expense spared summer in the Hamptons … $200,000, a weekend in L.A. … $50,000, and, of course, a bachelor weekend in Vegas. While Rooney bedded and dumped countless women, he finally marries one very high-maintenance woman named Carmela, and he describes their turbulent, short relationship not "so much a marriage as it was like a long, drunken date."
At times Rooney apologizes for the person he used to be. Sometimes the apology sounds sincere and sometimes it doesn't. It's impossible to tell where the remorse ends and the self-pity begins;
Forgive me for thinking that I was better than you will ever be. Forgive me for thinking that money equaled a kind of moral superiority
Rooney picks at the most shameful moments in his life–scabs that won't heal. There's one moment when he recalls a game he used to play with his hard-drinking workmates called "To Have and To have Not."
The idea was you had to think of something you had done that nobody else at the table had done, or something you had never done that everybody else had done.
As the evenings wear on, "the vagaries of human behaviour" are revealed and then Rooney reveals that a girl killed herself when he dumped her. While he mulls over how heartlessly he treated her, a great deal of the regret seems to dwell in the self-pity Rooney wallows in. There's also the sense that he'd be the same person again in a heartbeat if he got the chance, and we see that aspect of his character in the way Rooney, now in his 50s, dresses in the last of his expensive clothing and spends his days off using a false name and address and masquerading as a high-flying apartment seeker.
People's relationship with money is fascinating. Note the films stars who've earned millions only to declare bankruptcy, lose homes, or commit suicide when faced with financial disaster and a late life lack of earning power. Money works most of us, not the other way around, and people go the grave never understanding just how finances, and such tedious but necessary things as budgets, work. Of course I was fascinated to read this 'rise and fall' tale of a trader–surely, you'd think, someone who would understand money but who ultimately didn't. All those millions that passed through his hands must have given him some sort of contact high. No authors handle the subject of excess better than Americans, IMO, and it shows here. Yet Goolrick takes the high road when describing the high roller lifestyle rather than sinking to titillation.
(Finally, I couldn't help wondering if anyone could survive in NY on Barnes and Nobles wages and save for a foreign trip every year.)
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Tagged as AIDS, american fiction, New York, Wall Street
Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon by Sue Tilley
"If Leigh came to your house and saw something he didn't like he would throw it out the window."
I stumbled upon some photos of Leigh Bowery by pure accident, and I immediately knew that this Australian avant-garde performance artist/club promoter/costume designer was heavily influenced by Divine and John Waters. I then came across a bio of Bowery written by his long-time friend, Sue Tilley, so I decided to read it and discover whether or not the Divine-Leigh Bowery connection existed. And to break the suspense, yes, Bowery was influenced by Divine and John Waters, so for fans of Trash Cinema, or for those who appreciate Bad Taste, this book is an interesting read which further endorses Waters' influence outside of Baltimore. Yes people, he's polluting the whole planet!
But back to Leigh Bowery….
Bowery was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 and died of AIDS in 1994. This disease stripped the world of so many talented people. Freddie Mercury comes to mind, and Leigh Bowery was yet another immensely talented individual who could have accomplished so much more if he'd had the time.
This brutally honest, and sometimes raw, memoir is written by Leigh's close friend, Sue Tilley. Tilley was on the scene when 19-year-old Leigh, armed with a portable sewing machine, moved from Melbourne, Australia to London in 1980. Leigh was seeking glamour, excitement, and a "career in design" and he found all these things–although not instantly–in the London club scene by way of a detour at Burger King. Tilley describes the influences on Leigh's attitudes, including Divine: "the brilliant drag actor and singer, who was to be a great influence for the rest of his life."
An exceptional aspect of the memoir is Tilley's no-holds barred look at Leigh Bowery. They were best friends, and clearly Sue has a strong attachment to this larger-than-life Australian, but at no point does Tilley sugar-coat her view. We see the positive: his creativity, his humour and his zest for life, and the negative: stealing from Burger King, shoplifting, and the treatment of his 'slaves'.
Tilley describes the various fashion trends:New Romantics, Hard Times, & Glam as well as numerous notables from the 80s London club scene, including Scarlett Bordello and Steve Strange. The club scene at White Trash, ChaChas, Heaven and Asylum is detailed, and Leigh was such a natural presence at the clubs that he was approached by club entrepreneur Tony Gordon to be "the public face" of a club which opened in 1985. The club was named Taboo "because it epitomized everything Leigh loved." The club doorman, Mark Vaultier, would hold a mirror in front of the faces of would–be club entrants and ask: "Would you let yourself in?"
To quote an article from Alix Sharkey, Taboo was :
London's sleaziest, campest and bitchiest club of the moment which is stuffed with designers, stylists, models, students, dregs and the hopefully hip, lurching through the lasers and snarfing up amyl. The coolest geezer in here is wearing Bodymap tights and, yup, platform soles. A sudden rush for the toilets could only mean that a camera crew had arrived and were filming, nothing less would penetrate this narcissistic air of self-absorption.
The book is not strictly chronological, and some of it is organised thematically (Home, Dance, Art, Hospital), and the result is a well-considered blend of the personal and the professional–including Leigh's cottaging exploits and his favourite public toilets. When it came to sex, he preferred toilets to homes:
Very occasionally Leigh would go back to men's houses but he never really enjoyed it–it just confirmed the dreariness of most people's lives and their complete lack of taste in home furnishings.
Leigh comes to life in anecdotes–one example is the way he told such outrageous lies that no one knew whether or not he was telling the truth:
Typically, Leigh would tell the most heinous lies. He once told me that Brad Branson, an American photographer who I knew in passing, had been on holiday in Ibiza, caught a terrible tropical disease and dropped dead. I was very shocked at this because it seemed such a strange thing to happen. A couple of weeks later, I was sitting in my little cashier's booth at Industria and then suddenly Brad Branson came down the stairs. I nearly jumped out of my skin and screeched 'I thought you were dead.' I still don't know why I believed the story because after ten years I should have realised what a liar Leigh was but I didn't think that even he could make up stories that bad.
Leigh's playfulness and transgressive sense of humour seep through the pages, and for this reader at least, reading the book, gave a clear sense of knowing this adventurous character:
When Leigh was asked by somebody on what occasions he lied, he replied, 'On what occasions do I breathe!' At least he was honest that once. Because Leigh told such terrible lies, sometimes people didn't believe the truth. He once told Cerith that Les Child was working in the gay sauna in Covent Garden making sandwiches for the snack bar. Cerith couldn't believe that as talented a dancer as Les would be doing such a job. So when he bumped into Les several months later and asked him how things were going he was completely gobsmacked when he replied 'Fine, girl, I'm not making the sandwiches any more.'
So even when Leigh told the truth, the truth had a strangely comic result….Obviously for author Sue Tilley, the creator of this touching, tragic and funny memoir, it's impossible to forget Leigh Bowery. He was … simply … one of a kind.
For images of Leigh and his work, here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hASjFX7CVsQ
Review copy read on my kindle courtesy of Open Road media via Netgalley
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Tagged as 20th century Britain, AIDS, designer, Divine, London club scene, non-fiction, performance art
A Matter of Life and Sex by Oscar Moore
"It was the memory of a pause."
There's a seedy, twilight world that runs parallel to our cosy, safe terrain. One false move, one wrong turn, and we leave our safe, familiar world behind and enter this dangerous, dark underworld. Once the first step is taken, there is no turning back.
Hugo is 14 years old when he takes that step. He is the only son of a horrifically cold, neurotic and frequently violent woman. His stepfather is a mild man who is content to linger in the background. Hugo is already seriously damaged when he enters his teens. He cannot feel emotion, and has removed himself far from emotional pain. He's attracted to members of the same sex, and has a definite curiosity, when he accidentally stumbles into the world of "24 hour tango" which takes place at a local public toilet.
From silent, sometimes brutal, encounters with strangers, and seductions that begin with a single, hungry look, Hugo slides into pornography, prostitution and drug abuse. In the beginning, Hugo is able to separate himself from his actions by creating a suave, tougher alter ego, David. It is as though David–not Hugo–experiences the searing often degrading encounters in the public toilets, but as Hugo matures, he drops this persona, and instead, we encounter, Hugo–intelligent, handsome, and yet completely and utterly soulless.
"A Matter of Life and Sex" is one man's journey to hell. This book is an unrelenting, searing, graphic, brutal read. Many of the details of Hugo's life will be too much for some readers; however, the details are not salacious. Every word was necessary in this brilliant, stunning novel. The protagonist Hugo doesn't possess any characteristics that make him particularly likeable, but he's not despicable either. He's hollow–not shallow–and he feels "no need to develop a conscience" so he never experiences any moral barriers to his behaviour. Author Oscar Moore creates a character who is basically a living, breathing blank–and in this devastatingly honest novel, there is nowhere for the main character to hide. From Hugo's days as a confused schoolboy vaguely bothered by his lack of attraction to girls, his college days supporting himself as a male prostitute, to his final catharsis in New York, Hugo lacks the refuge of recriminations, remorse, or even doubt. Hugo dreams of being a street tough and laces his imagination with images of how he'd like to be, but he remains a symptom and a victim of the dark culture he flounders in. Tragically, just as Hugo begins to reclaim his life, the consequences of his past sweep over him. "A Matter of Life and Sex" is a blistering record of the world awakening to the presence of AIDS, and this book remains one of the best books I've read this year. Author Oscar Moore left us just this one novel before his tragic death.
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WALL DRAWINGS AND GOUACHES
Noire gallery presents a personal exhibition of the American artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) for the third time. The artist and Noire Gallery have continued to work together over the years with a series of exhibitions and also to realise, with passion and care, the production of his editions in Italy.
The exhibition, held in San Sebastiano, is made up of Wall Drawings, created by the artist in 1972 and 1985 and also by numerous gouaches created over the course of the years.
On the walls of the small church (in San Sebastiano) the Wall Drawing, presented for the first time in 1972 in Documenta 5 in Kassel, has been faithly completed with hard graphite like the first works of the 70's so that it becomes as much part of the walls as possible.
They are not straight lines, horizontal which do not touch and not straight lines, vertical which do not touch. Dedicated to Eva Hesse in the year of her death, the artist introduces the "lines which are not straight" to recall the passing of minimalism by geometrical constrictions.
The walls do not merely hold the Wall Drawing, but now suggest the idea, the dimension, the position and become total part of the space.
And…in the exact words of the artist, in one of his brief texts in 1970, Sol Lewitt writes: "The designer and the wall set up a dialogue between them. The designer gets bored but then, through this activity without sense, he finds peace or torment. The lines on the wall are what is left of this process. Every line is as important as each other. All the lines become one. Looking at the lines all you can see are lines on the wall. It is without sense. This is art" And then: " Everyone draws lines and understands words in different ways."
If the first works are camouflaged with walls, using a pencil and a primary vocabulary, the asymmetric pyramids invest the space by passing obstacles to express themselves in their entirety.
The second Wall Drawing is a pyramid realised by putting various layers of ink on top of each other. Noire Gallery had already presented a big Wall Drawing in the Turin space in 1986 with two asymmetric pyramids marked by black and white sections alternated on the wall.
Now the presence of colour in the choice of inks made into a magical mix takes on the appearance of a fresco which recalls the artist's love for Italy: "My work was a mix of what I saw in New York and what I found in the Italian art…Even before we moved to Italy we would go and see the frescos every years."
The second part of the exhibition consists of a vast series of gouaches which the artist realised over the years.
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GAME COMPLETED SEVERAL TIMES This game clearly was designed to be a CE, all that is missing is the bonus game play. As well as a well crafted game, it has the following extras: ? Integrated SG ? Collectibles ? Achievements ? Wallpapers ? Sneak Peek (video from their next game Frozen ? looks good) The game is good value in its own right. The graphics are good, not spectacular, but the cut scenes are sensational and make up for it. The atmosphere is oppressive, ugly and sometimes downright scary. The story is nothing new, and is not emphasized with lots of scattered info along the way. You spend most of the time simply getting around the grounds and buildings trying to find out what happened. But it is well paced, and finishes with a bang. I found myself having to get help on what to do next from the SG a bit too often. Still, I was playing late at night and it might have been just me. What this game didn?t have and needed desperately was an interactive map. The game area was huge. There were dozens of locations, often used only for a couple of items spread apart of course, and they were all over that none existent map. It required my full concentration to just get around, never mind remembering where particular puzzles were. Now that we?ve mentioned them, there were very few puzzles and they were easy. This was a HO game, wrapped into a good adventure. Overall, this game is worthy of a solid four stars from me ? its extras have earned it a fifth.
...at half the price. Finally! This CE thinghy is starting to wear me out, 70% of time is a bluff. This game is longer than many CE, better drawn and less stupid. Keep up the good work!
Cracking game if you like spooky!
This game exceeded many CEs in quality, story, game play and graphics. Played right to the end, which took about 5 hours on advanced level. No map and lots of scenes to visit, but not too much going back and forth. Interactive HOS, not too difficult although the scenes were a bit dark. I really enjoyed the level of difficulty, not too taxing but not too easy either. A BIG plus was having a built in strategy guide. If you like eerie, creepy games this one is for you. A couple of times I thought the game had glitched, but in fact it hadn't. Ran perfectly smoothly on my W7 machine, and smooth cursor. Can't wait to see more games like this from these devs!
BFG surprises me with this game for weekend. I immediately buy it after 10 minutes demo and here's why: + PLUSES: - it gives you a CE version of a SE; it has it's strategy guide, extras, for the price of an SE -> biggest plus - excellent graphic, the scenes look so real - voice overs, and they're pretty good too! - spooky music, although some are repetitive during the HOG scenes - creepy atmosphere - lots of HOG and few mini-games, my kind of game :D the downsides are: - the setting, which is used over and over again: abandoned asylum, former or current patient, etc.. - abrupt ending with no clear conclusion - some chapters are long, the others are not, making the game length quite short - mispelling of some items in the HOG scenes, like I'm looking for 'hummer' and turns out to be 'hammer' - HOG scenes are dark and items difficult to see - a lot of backtracking and no map Still, the pluses are more important to me so that's the reason I'm buying it. Try the demo and hope you'll like it too!
This game was truly enthralling, from the opening scene to the ending scene. The game entailed trying to resolve as to why patients disappeared from the asylum. Spooky music enhances the atmosphere of the game. In my opinion, just the right amount of interactive hidden objects to collect necessary items. I really enjoyed completing the adventure! Thank you for also adding morphing objects as well. The puzzles were great! Two of the puzzles kept me busy for a long time. Loved the achievement at the end indicating completed all puzzles without using the skip! I cannot get over the length of this game! There were so many rooms to explore and equally, a number of tasks! I am really looking forward to the next release, "Frozen". Thank you Big Fish and to the developer for such an outstanding game!
Oh yeah, this is good!
The game had me at the opening scene!
Before I begin, I must congratulate the Developers for a really stunning opening scene; best I have scene in a while, especially in a SE game! By now you have read the reviews and probably know that witht this game, you really are getting a bargain here. This game has all the game features that we usually see in a CE, and I am truely blown over. I expect that many will find this game to be dark and dreary not to mention a storyline which we have seen many times before; another abandoned Asylum and a mystery to solve. Nevertheless, I am a fan, and one of my guilty pleasures are these genre of games. Although the graphics are dark, they are sharp and the art work is very well done. There are voice overs when needed and I really liked the cut scenes. Your menu options offer everything such as custom cursor, screen width and brightness in addition to two play modes. The HOG scenes are dark, crowded, somewhat tricky and some interaction are involved. My only complaint is that they are too dark and some objects were almost impossible to detect. Also the mini-games were sparse and not very challenging. You have a journal and believe or not, a SG to help you out. Also another big thank-you to the developers for adding morphing objects and achievments which actually made me press the buy button without a second thought. I love these extra challenges that just add to the overall gaming experience. I think that some will either love this game or pass on it due to the topic and the dark and sombre atmosphere of the game. Yes, we have all been there and done that, but just like some of our favorite TV shows, subject matters rarely change. In the world of creative thinkng, there is almost no original idea and we do seem to be re-playing the same stories over and over. Regardless of that, I am a fan and I really enjoyed playing this game. I look forward to seeing the sneak preview of Frozen and thank BFG for this cool surprise on a Saturday.


2019 Chevrolet Suburban Diesel Premier Release Date & Price – Severe diesel followers presently identified the implies to repair create Suburban by getting an engine that employs their most preferred energy type. However, from now on, it does not be necessary to acquire the thirdly-meet of the company to set up the new powertrain. Although it continues to unofficial, at the moment there are a few recommendations concerning it. Subsequent, fanatics want this so sick and tired. The redesign is normally on the strategy as a segment of that mid-cycle invigorate. The current period of Chevrolet Suburban Diesel began in 2015, and we will not see the subsequent one till 2021 or 2022. The element of that mid-cycle update is revisited regarding the engine room, wherein the full-measurement SUV is getting a new device.
Correctly, whenever we get a analyze other courses, there are similar gossips as properly. Tahoe and even Yukon, as diverse GM's large Sports utility vehicles, might also get diesel versions. This is not strange given that their sizing is equivalent to pickup truck and Suburban. Even so, that is not all. Chevy and Popular Motors are not the just carmakers who go this way. RAM 1500 and then Ford F-150 is getting diesel products for 2019 time as perfectly. Each organization, Ford as effectively as FCA, are at this time setting up programs that can use the exact same engines developed for other autos.
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Schulhof or Schulhoff is a German and a Yiddish surname meaning schoolyard or synagogal yard. Notable people with the surname include:

Schulhof:
 Lipót Schulhof (1847–1921), Hungarian astronomer
 2384 Schulhof, main-belt asteroid named for him
 Nathan Schulhof (born 1949), American businessman
 David Schulhof (born 1971), American music and entertainment executive

Schulhoff:
 Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942), Czech composer and pianist
 Julius Schulhoff (1825–1898), Czech pianist and composer, musicologist, great-uncle of Erwin Schulhoff
 Courtney Schulhoff (born 1987)

See also
 Flint S. Schulhofer (1926–2006), American racehorse trainer

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New Delhi: Perturbed by manipulations by speculators, the Rubber Board has urged the Forward Market Commission (FMC) to plug the intra-day price fluctuation in natural rubber futures trading at 2% from the 4% limit allowed at present.
Questioning the very "existence of futures " in natural rubber, Rubber Board chairman Sajen Peter has said instead of achieving price discovery and stabilization, commodity future trading has given wrong signals to the market and fuelled volatility.
Though the FMC had reduced the daily price fluctuation in respect of all rubber futures contracts from 3% to 2% from July this year, the present arrangement allows volatility up to 4% after a 15-minute cooling time.
"As the price currently hovers around Rs85 per kg, a variation of 4% in a day is considerably high. The maximum possible intra-day variation needs to be plugged at 2% under any circumstance," Peter said in his letter to FMC chairman B C Khatua.
Peter said natural rubber futures prices have been "unduly manipulated" leading to artificial bullish/bearish trends, which in turn are often transmitted into the sport rubber prices.
"This often leads to unwarranted volatility in natural rubber prices bringing serious hardship to all stakeholders in the rubber industry — growers, processors, dealers and manufacturers," the Rubber Board chairman said.
He said the "price bubble" in the domestic market from October to December 2006 prompted the tyre manufacturers to expect a still higher price from February onwards during the lean natural rubber production season.
The tyre industry, therefore, entered into large-scale overseas contracts for natural rubber resulting in import surge. Import during 2006-07 was 89,699 tonnes against 45,285 tonnes in the previous year. In the process, the closing stock at the end of March 2007 was 163,530 tonnes against 93,020 tonnes a year ago.
The board has demanded a holistic review of the functioning of futures trading in natural rubber to identify the weaknesses and rectify them.
"In the absence of such a review and immediate corrective steps, the logical basis of the existence of futures trading in NR is, to say the least, questionable," Peter said.