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Throw out clichÂs
Political writing tends to be bad writing, noted George Orwell in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language.” Too often it's a tool for deception and obfuscation rather than clear communication. Orwell criticizes particularly those who rely on...Tags: Pol Pot
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Google Doodle celebrates the work of Diego Rivera
Culture MonsterGoogle celebrated the work of artist and social activist Diego Rivera Thursday morning with a doodle of a mural replicating Diego’s distinct aesthetic, capturing his many depictions of industrialism and every day life in Mexico.... -
Housewife corset was a must-have item for domestic engineering in 1911
100 Years Ago Cruel Corset A large ad in the Times showed a woman washing clothes on a scrub board with the headline: "Baltimore's best store: Hochschild, Kohn &, Co. ; Housework is easy in a 'Housewife' corset." "The Housewife Corset (shown in right...Tags: Punishment, Politics, Political Systems, World War II (1939-1945), Armed Conflicts
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Gregorio Luke to talk about controversial murals
Culture MonsterDavid Alfaro Siqueiros (on July 31), Diego Rivera (Aug. 7) and Jose Clemente Orozco (Aug. 14) are topics of Gregorio Luke's mural series.... -
‘Thor,’ coming to video Sept. 13 — or ‘What did YOU watch this weekend?
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelAs we race toward the Global Peace Film Festival, see things early in prep for interviews and plow through recent BluRays that have crossed my desk, it's been a “What do you HAVE to watch NEXT?” weekend in our house. That's the way my wife has... -
Global Peace Film Fest — your best bets
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelOrlando’s Global Peace Film Festival is in its eighth year. So it’s fitting that this annual showcase of films about activism and activists, working for peace, a greener planet and the like should expand to eight venues. Between Tuesday and... -
TODAY IN HISTORY
1929: Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union. 1961: The Central Building on the campus of Northern State Teacher's College was destroyed by fire. Flames from the fire were visible for several miles. The early...Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Cape Canaveral, NASA, Human Interest
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Art review: 'Siqueiros: Landscape Painter' at Museum of Latin American Art and 'Siqueiros in L.A.: Censorship Defied' at Autry National Center
Culture MonsterIn all of 20th-century art there may be no more tangled a tale, however well-known the individual artists are, than the Mexican mural movement. Partly that's because the painters hitched their aesthetic wagons to a revolutionary era, which is by...... -
Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit
Animal Crazy - Orlando SentinelIt might have seemed odd that Mount Dora would have Mike the rabbit stand in for Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, but considering that the next day, Thursday, Feb. 3, is the first day of the Chinese lunar new year — 4709, the Year of... -
Review: 'The Lacuna' by Barbara Kingsolver
"The Lacuna"
By Barbara KingsolverHarper Perennia, 544 pages, $16.99
In Barbara Kingsolver’s rich new novel "The Lacuna," the artist Frida Kahlo remarks that she would like to think she is being “pulled through history by something more...Tags: Family, Mexico City, Bible, Frida Kahlo, World War I (1914-1918)
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Championing reviews this week: Magic Johnson and Larry Bird; China and the U.S. economy; J.M. Barrie and more
Jacket CopyIt is, reviewer David Davis writes, nearly impossible to find two opposing superstars whose sports careers became as linked as Larry Bird's and Magic Johnson's. In 1979, when Bird was a college senior and Johnson a junior, they led their......
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