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Editorial
DAVID SOLWAY: BOMBAST AND THE BOMB
- LETTING IRAN GO NUCLEAR
Why is the wimpish West laying the
ground for a 'second coming?'
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Essay
21ST CENTURY SEXUALITY by Cynthia
Peters
The semiotics of sex and desire
-- "the whole world is watching."
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Memoir
SHOOTING NELSON MANDELA by Shahidul
Alam
Nervous, awestruck photographer
gets to meet Madiba, his hero.
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Word
Usage
AS YOU 'LIKE' IT by Howard Richler
The contemporary use of the word
'like' is 'like' a good thing. Thus spake Howard.
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Essay
THE MUSIC DOES NOT REMAIN THE SAME
by Ramin Sadighi and Sohrab Mahdavi
Can western music foment revolution
in Iran? Is it "gonna be alright?"
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Appreciation
ALWAYS ON SONTAG by Yahia Lababidi
"An imaginative substitute for
the intolerable imperfections of things as they are." Thus
was Susan Sontag.
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Environment
MEKONG DELTA BLUES by Michael Richardson
Damned if you do -- dammed if you
don't.
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Music
SIX DEGREES OF JAZZ
Sandals and starlight, cocktails
and satellites is Brazil's new voice -- Luciana Souza.
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Film
Review
BLOOD RIVER reviewed by Sylvain
Richard
Fear and trembling revealed in existential
horror thriller.
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Essay
MY GYPSY WIFE TONIGHT by Robert
J. Lewis
Submits the gypsy and his disparaged
way of life as a credible antidote to the malaises of modernity.
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Film
Review
CRYPTIC reviewed by Sylvain Richard
Your unhappy older self tries to
convince your younger self to do things differently. A science
fiction masterpiece.
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Art
Appreciation
OWEN YORK: SPARK IN THE NIGHT by
Wendy Beccaccini
Portrait of an artist answering
his existential night.
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