40 days ago by Perez Hilton

Hell yeah, Helena Bonham Carter! The actress has been honored with a CBE - or Commander of the Order of the British Empire - in the Queen's New Year Honors list, which was published today, alongside Ronnie Corbett, Australian entertainer and writer Clive James, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire creator ...

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45 days ago by Joe Linker

Clive James argues that poets should know the rules before breaking them. “Technique’s Marginal Centrality” (Poetry, January 2012, pp. 326-335) is not a very original argument. It is a very conservative argument, often repeated by those who do know the … Continue reading →

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56 days ago by Prins van Denemarken

It is undoubtedly true that some people who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. But some people who can’t remember the past aren’t. More disturbingly, many of those who can remember the past are condemned to repeat it anyway. Plenty of people who remembered the past were sent to die ...

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90 days ago by Suzanne Moore

The Rockford Style Eastwood? McQueen? Why James Garner is the real star of his era. By CLIVE JAMES Cherokee Productions/NBC/ Universal TV/The Kobal Collection S TAND ASIDE FOR Maverick! Stand aside again for Jim Rockford! They live forever in the shining presence of one man! Let his name ring out: J ...

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95 days ago by starspringsf

the lights are extinguished the angels are ignited the burning in the underground is rising like a reverse rain and driving rays the perverse without greediness, or guile quiet, bowed somehow without you two night.

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96 days ago by Goethe Girl

In off moments I liked to dip into a wonderful volume of essays by Clive James. An Australian by birth, he has lived in England since the 1960s. The volume is Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts. James' cultural reach is extensive, and the volume includes essays on quite a ...

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113 days ago by Prins van Denemarken

Critics can’t influence the course of artists, and look foolish trying. There is no magnet that powerful. If I could alter the course of an artist like David Malouf, however, I would bring the focus of his attention closer to here and now. His historical novels and stories are richly imagined, but t ...

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131 days ago by shawjonathan

Jeff Sparrow, editor, Overland 204, Spring 2011 At a time where the terms of Australian political debate are set by the self-styled ‘centre-right’ Australian to the extent that vehemently anti-Communist Robert Manne is seen as left wing, everyone who’s more socialist than Ghengis Khan should subscri ...

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146 days ago by Shimon H.

Synaesthetes are crosswired. They feel shapes, smell noises, see flavours, hear colors. Colored hearing seems to be the commonest of the mix-ups. Liszt, Wagner, Scriabin (‘D Major was yellow’) and Gothe all saw musical notes in colors. For Anthony Burgess an oboe was ‘silver-green lemon juice’ and a ...

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153 days ago by musicclipoftheday

Steve Reich, WTC 9/11 (2010), excerpts Kronos Quartet, with prerecorded tape 1st Movement *** 3rd Movement ********** lagniappe reading table They jumped from the burning floors— one, two, a few more, higher, lower. The photograph halted them in life, and now keeps them above the earth toward the ea ...

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