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10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.
CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (11)
HARRY NILSSON, COMPUTER GENIUS
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Guy Debord
GUY DEBORD (1931-94) was a founder and key intellectual figure in the Situationist International, an avant-garde Marxist collective influential in postwar France, especially during...
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27th
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Oscar Levant
A virtuoso pianist with a biting wit, OSCAR LEVANT (1906-72) was equally at home with Schoenberg’s atonalism and Gershwin’s jazzy rhapsodies, dated a series...
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26th
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Serpentine Fire
Alchemy has long since made the transition from practice to metaphor. And while this may have disturbed Sir Isaac, it’s fine with the artists:...
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26th
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Henry Miller
His books were banned in America for decades, sparked a groundbreaking “obscenity as literature” debate, and were a seminal part of the sexual revolution....
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25th
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Annie Lennox
For somebody who’s been batting out the hits for thirty years now, ANNIE LENNOX (born 1954) sure doesn’t make a big deal about it:...
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24th
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Island of Misfit Toys
The HiLo elves have been busy, busy, busy. In addition to the wonderful books and stories featured previously in our gift shop, we also...
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24th
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The Book is a Weapon (12)
Meta-commentary: Researching pulp cover illustrations in which books are featured is exceedingly difficult. Try googling the phrases “book on book” or “book cover featuring...
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