- Recording revolution: George Orwell v Joan Miró
Both responded strongly to Spain's civil war and early fight for democracy. But Orwell was willing to face – and tell – the truthGeorge Orwell was no great art lover. In Homage to Catalonia, his book on the Spanish civil war, he makes scathing remarks on Barcelona's 'hideous, modernist cathedral' – by which he means Gaudi's Sagrada Família, neither ugly, nor straightforwardly modernist, nor a cathedral. In a famous essay on Salvador Dalí, he portrays modern art as a decadent, amoral, selfish business.I don't know if he was even aware of Joan Miró, a far more likable modern artist by Orwell's moral criteria, or of his poster Aidez L'Espagne!, which expressed the Catalan painter's passion for the republican cause in Spain. But these two men and their responses to revolution and war in the 20th century make a fruitful comparison at this moment in the 21st.In 1930s Spain, a democratic republic was trying to sweep away centuries of monarchical and Catholic absolutism. But Spanish democracy came under attack from a nationalist military revolt led by General Franco. Idealism did not defeat guns: Franco went on to win.Miró, like Picasso, reacted with deep emotion to the plight of Spain. His paintings see the violence of civil war in an old shoe, in the prongs of a fork, in a colossal woman. Like Goya, he probes the horrors of a society tearing itself apart. But Miró and Picasso were not themselves fighting in Spain, and their support for the republican cause was not complicated by any investigation of its failings.That is why, although the Spanish civil war generated some of the greatest art of the 20th century, if we want the real lowdown on Spain we will always go beyond images to a work of journalism. The more I think about it, the more incredible it seems that Homage to Cat _NULL_
- Griffin pulls out all stops to win slamfest
Paying homage to a close friend who died this week, Blake Griffin, pictured, dunked over a car to win the 2011 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk competition ov... 今週死亡した親しい友人に敬意を払う、ブレイクグリフィン、写真、2011年NBAオールスタースラムダンクコンテストのOVに勝つために車にdunked ...
- Advertising: Super Bowl Ads Mine Decades of Americana
The Super Bowl ads dished up a dizzying mélange of star turns, movie references, homages to television shows, snippets of songs and even hat-tips to other spots. スーパーボウルの広告は、テレビ番組、曲の断片やその他の観光スポットにも帽子の先端に星のターン、映画の参照、homages目のくらむようなメランジュ交。凹面
- Venezuelan opposition party mourns late ex-president
Venezuela's opposition Democratic Action party will hold a series of events to pay homage to the country's former president and party member Carlos Andres Perez who died on Saturday.
Lectures and other events to honor the former president are being prepared by the Democratic Action's 335 municipal branches, and a national event has been planned for 2011, Henry Ramos, the party's general secretary, told reporters on Sunday.
Perez, 88, died of a heart attack Saturday afternoon in Miami, the ... ベネズエラの野党民主行動党は土曜日に死亡した国の元大統領と党のメンバーカルロスAndresさんPerezさんに敬意を払うに一連のイベントを開催します
- Occupy Wall Street: march on police plaza - live
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are planning to march on the New York police department headquarters in protest at last week's pepper-spray controversy3.29pm: Adam Gabbatt has been surveying the scene at the New York Police Department headquarters, where barriers have been put up in preparation for the expected march later this afternoon. A police officer has told Adam that the protesters, if they arrive, will be channelled through the barriers in order to prevent them getting near the building. Lines of police officers will ring the barriers. Adam says it looks like quite a small space: if there are a large number of protesters, things could get quite tense here, I think.3pm: The anti-Wall Street protests are continuing in Lower Manhattan. Police have allowed the protesters to stay at their makeshift camp in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District, and the this week a stream of celebrities arrived to pay homage to the occupiers of this ramshackle collection of tents and sleeping bags.Until now, it has been the usual suspects: the actor and activist Susan Sarandon, radical film-maker Michael Moore (twice), the Outkast rapper Big Boi, and the provocative black intellectual Cornel West.For a time today, it looked as if the celebrity score would go to a new level, with reports that Radiohead, who are in town for a series of concerts, would play an unannounced gig at the park. Unfortunately, it was announced (by the protesters) and then denied (by the band's public relations firm). Whether it goes ahead or not remains a moot point – and in any case the substantive story today is that the protesters are planning a march on the New York Police Department headquarters in protest at the now-notorious use of pepper spray at last Saturday's demonstration.Our reporter Adam Ga アダムGabbattは障壁がで我慢されているニューヨーク市警本部、でシーンを調査されています：先週の唐辛子スプレーcontroversy3.29pmに抗議してニューヨーク市警本部で行進するウォールストリートのデモが計画している占領予想される行進後の午後のための準備
- The School of American Ballet Winter Ball 2012
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- The Power of Super Bowl Advertising
Super Bowl XLVI is an outstanding event for die-hard football fans, general sports enthusiasts and businesses. Think back one short year. The Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburg Steelers in Super Bowl XLV; an estimated 111 million viewers (i.e., consumers) watched the game. At no other time during the year does any business obtain that extensive amount of viewership. Super Bowl Sunday has power! Power to draw viewers; power to capture attention; power to make consumers sit up and watch commercials. As a professor and consultant in the retail sector, I pay homage to Super Bowl Sunday. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Splitting image: Benetton's advert is an heir to Raphael's pope paintings
So the pope-kissing-imam ad was shouted down? The Vatican has been carefully controlling the pope's image for 500 yearsYou can understand why the Vatican got so angry with Benetton for creating an image of Pope Benedict XVI kissing the grand sheikh of Cairo's al-Azhar mosque. After all, the modern church has such a pristine image to protect – it's not as if it's beset by widespread accusations of clerical abuse or anything like that. A plainly fictional image of the pope kissing a Muslim man was, clearly, the worst thing to tarnish the Vatican's image in recent years. Much more serious than anything revealed about such Catholic institutions as St Benedict's school in London.Benetton's adverts are actually a homage to a renowned Berlin wall graffiti painting of Communist leaders Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev kissing. Everyone finds it funny to see former leaders of the defunct Soviet bloc snogging, it seems, but when contemporary figures from the western world are similarly mocked the cannoli hit the fan.Why is the Vatican so displeased, and why did Benetton so readily surrender? The image of the pope is one of the greatest triumphs of marketing in history. A church that is led by a venerable celibate might seem to have an in-built selling-point problem. How can popes, who necessarily take the throne of St Peter as old and often ailing men, be made to seem charismatic and glamorous in a world that values youth and physical vigour?The papacy tackled this problem five centuries ago by calling in some of the greatest image-makers in world history. Today's advertising gurus have nothing on Raphael and Titian. One of the most influential images of power in the history of the world hangs quietly today in London's National Gallery: Raphael's portrait of Pope Julius II crea null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Wise men of today will need very deep pockets
Gold doesn't come cheap and supplies of frankincense and myrrh are threatened They journeyed from the East to pay homage to the boy king bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. But they would struggle to complete the task... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Artist rolls on
The Artist increased its momentum in the run-up to the Oscars, winning best-produced film at the Producers Guild Awards. The silent black-and-white French comedy is a homage to the pre-talkie era of Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s.... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- 7 Things Chrysler Could Use To Mount a Good 'Second Half'
Over the weekend, Chrysler finally released TV advertisements meant to follow up its high-profile commercial featuring Clint Eastwood that aired at halftime of the Super Bowl, back in early February. Each of the four ads highlights one of Chrysler’s brands in the general tenor of its Big Game spot, called “It’s Halftime in America,” which paid homage to the nation’s comeback spirit. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Where will you worship - beach or church? | Hephzibah Anderson
For many at Easter, the lure of the great outdoors will always trump religious observanceOn this, the holiest day in the Christian calendar, the vast majority of Britons will be trading a pew for a deckchair (weather allowing) and worshipping an altogether more pagan god. Whether lolling in back gardens, baring almost all on tiny high-rise balconies, or lying like sardines on the nearest beach, we will pay homage as one to the sun. And who could blame us? It's been too hot for hot cross buns and across most of the country, forecasters are promising record-breaking, Easter egg-melting highs. But the intensity of our worship also reminds us of what we're missing.Nothing unites this drizzly nation like fair weather, certainly not the impending royal nuptials. As statistics for road closure requests revealed last week, those have us divided. Richmond-upon-Thames is set to throw 85 street parties, Glasgow not one. And it isn't as if we're a cohesive whole south of the border, either. Who else forgot it was St George's Day yesterday?A splash of sunshine, on the other hand, will see the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots and the English stampeding in unison from their desks, shedding layers and generally acting like sunstroke has already struck. Not even sport has quite the rallying effect. No visitor from abroad can truly comprehend these isles without first visiting the seaside on a rare day of blue skies and glittering waves.And, yes, there is something faintly idolatrous about it all. You needn't go picking your way through the smouldering barbecues and flushed revellers on Brighton beach – close to my home – to feel the boozy heathen vibe. At the moment, it seems heightened. Though the thermometer reads summer, it's still spring and spring is a time of year w イースターは、常に宗教observanceOnこの、キリスト教のカレンダーで最も神聖な日を切り札にする大自然の魅力で多くの人にとって、英国人の大半はデッキチェア（天候次第）の信者席の取引と完全より異教の神崇拝される
- The new world's great tradition: novelty | Charles Petersen
It's not about genealogy, or even family. It's about marking time, happy that we're here in this remorselessly restless nationMy grandmother was a genealogist and like most American genealogists, she had one goal: to prove that her family was not just as old as the country itself – the paltry aim of the Daughters of the American Revolution – but still older, that we had some direct link to the longest-running American tradition, Thanksgiving, and that we had come across on the Mayflower itself. By the time I was a kid, she had done it. For my tenth birthday, I was given a handmade genealogy, as big as my bed, that traced our roots back to Plymouth Rock and beyond.That was the Bracken family. At the top of the genealogy stood the Petersens, my grandmother's homage to her son-in-law. It was a short, stunted stripling of a tree beside the vast foliage below, going back just a few generations to the Norwegian farmers who had come across with so many other immigrants in the late 19th century. Our Thanksgivings were not the raucous meetings of old creaky Wasps and recent rambunctious immigrants that you might imagine. Norwegians are, if anything, more reserved than your average Anglo-Saxons. And when I was nine months old, my parents joined in another great American tradition and headed west, packing up their lives in Minnesota and moving to Idaho, where I grew up and where they still live now. No two Thanksgivings were ever alike. One year, it was a small family affair; the next, a large gathering of families too far from their own roots to head home; the next, a gaggle of Thanksgiving orphans, bachelors and divorcees, old and young, whom my mother had invited to join us. Some years, we would have turkey, others, we would have lamb, or steak, or some odd duck my mom had read それは、系図、あるいは家族の話ではありません
- 127 Hours: the sequel
A man goes hiking across the Utah desert, only to have to fight for survival for four days. And it's no accident it sounds just like Danny Boyle's film 127 HoursThe desire to pay homage to your favourite film isn't new: that's why Carnforth tea room is still packed 66 years after Brief Encounter and romcom fans ram the Empire State Building every Valentine's Day in tribute to Sleepless in Seattle. But few have followed in their cinematic hero's footsteps so slavishly as Amos Wayne Richards, a 64-year-old who was inspired to hike across the Utah desert after watching Danny Boyle's Oscar-nominated 127 Hours. That film took its title from the length of time its hero, Aron Ralston (played by James Franco), spent trapped in a canyon, swigging his own urine, sobbing through flashbacks and finally lopping off his own arm, which was pinned beneath a boulder. It turned out to be only slightly longer than the ordeal endured by Richards, who, after tumbling 10ft down a cliff this month, broke his leg, dislocated his shoulder and spent four days crawling back to his car, sustained by two protein bars and rainwater. Like Ralston, he was without mobile reception, and hadn't told anyone where he was going. Drive fans, take heed: Ryan Gosling may look cool flipping cars and stomping gangsters, but don't try it at home.United StatesUtahCatherine Shoardguardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- Pope's homage to Shroud
The Pope has paid homage to the Turin Shroud. The Vatican has never said whether it believes the 4.2m-long, sepia-coloured burial shroud to be authentic, but more than two million people are expected to travel to Turin to see the... 法王はトリノ聖骸布に敬意を払ってきました
- Leszek Możdżer: Komeda – review
(ACT) Germany's ACT label seems to be on a mission to introduce the world to Europe's rising new jazz-classical pianists. Polish pianist Leszek M。。。żer is classically trained, but discovered jazz in his late teens. His solo debut for the label is, fittingly, a homage to one of Polish music's legends, the short-lived jazz pianist and movie-score composer Krzysztof Komeda. All eight pieces are Komeda's, and M。。。żer gives them a romantic sheen (though one that's abraded by a dissonant urgency) the composer would have understood. The opening Svantetic develops from brightly dancing lines to demonic chordal percussiveness. Low, booming resonances softly boil beneath the tricklingly poignant, then threateningly spiky Sleep Safe and Warm (written for Polanski's film Rosemary's Baby), while the skipping, boppish Cherry is a rare upbeat number. M。。。żer's swaying swing and slow-melody nuances suggest Keith Jarrett at times, but his outbursts of percussive playing, flinty treble-note sparks and staccato drum-pattern sounds are all his own. The pianist stops dead in the midst of the closing Moja Ballada, as if in acknowledgement of Komeda's sudden (and mysterious) death in 1969, at the age of 38. JazzPolandJohn Fordhamguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- Bangladesh observes 6th anniversary of grenade attack on PM Hasina
The ruling Awami League (AL) on Saturday observed the 6th anniversary of grenade attack apparently on the party President and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which killed 24 people and over 200 wounded in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid wreath at a makeshift memorial in front of the central office of the ruling AL in the capital to pay homage to the people killed in the grenade explosions, including Women Affairs Secretary of the party Ivy Rahman, wife of curre ... 与党アワミ連盟は、（AL）の土曜日にハシナレイアウト花輪をシェイク首相6周年を観察した手榴弾の攻撃は明らかに党大統領と首相今首相シェイクのハシナバングラデシュ24、殺した人と200以上の負傷インチダッカ首都間に合わせの資本の支配ALのセントラルオフィスの前で記念碑が女性ジャンプ長官アイビーラーマン、カルの妻党を含む人々手榴弾の爆発で死亡、に敬意を払う...
- Artist of the week 136: Vera Lutter
Ghostly forms float around Vera Lutter's pinhole-camera shots, mixing modern imagery with antique photographic technologyWill-o'-the-wisps seem to dart around New York-based artist Vera Lutter's uncanny photographs of cityscapes and ancient sites. In her latest black and white series, Egypt, contours of pyramids jut from the paper like wall reliefs. You could almost touch the empty deserts they rise from, dotted with pebbles or rumpled with sand dunes. And the photos fade to white at the edges, so the tombs and sphinxes resemble sculptures stranded on plinths.One of the reasons Lutter's images feel tangible and yet weird is that they're realised in negative, so that light forms auras where shadows should be cast and the sky is always black. But it's also the way she makes them, using one of photography's simplest and oldest devices – the pinhole camera. This is time-consuming business, requiring long exposures so that the film not only records the outlines of buildings but the ghost-like forms that move in and out of the frame as the clock ticks on. They can be crafted from anything: Lutter has used an old trunk for some of her work, but she's regularly worked with room-sized boxes to create huge, one-off images.In addition to Egypt, Lutter has photographed the Renaissance architecture of Venice and London's St Paul's. But many of her best-known works use antique techniques to capture fast-changing urban landscapes, including glass-fronted buildings and buzzing highways. For Frankfurt Airport VII: April 24, 2001, she placed a huge pinhole camera next to an aircraft stand and let the image take shape. The planes that parked there appear as overlain traces of each other, so that they seem to judder on the page.While Lutter's photographs appear to pay homage to mankind's a 幽霊のようなフォームは、アンティーク、写真technologyWill -カボチャ-切れ間都市の景観と古代遺跡のニューヨークベースのアーティストベラルターの神秘的な写真の周りダーツに見える近代的なイメージを混合し、ベラルターのピンホールカメラショット周。浮かんでいる
- Pope T-shirt competition | Andrew Brown
What T-shirt would you wear to greet the Pope with? A chance for Cif belief readers to design their ownI am indebted to my colleague Riazat Butt for this idea: We know the National Secular Society is unhappy about the papal visit to the UK, but surely it could have come up with a better t-shirt than this ? CiF Belief - in homage to the many years of service from The Gallery - wants you to come up with your own design for a papal t-shirt, whatever your feelings about the Holy Father.Send them to andrew.brown@guardian.co.uk as a JPEG with a brief caption and we'll put the best ones up on the site. Some of them may even end up on T shirts, coffee mugs and so on.ReligionAndrew Brownguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
どのようなTシャツあなたが法王を迎えるために着るか？ CIFの信念読者のためのチャンスが同僚Riazatバットにお世話にこのアイデアを私たちownIを設計する：私たちは国家世俗社会を知っている英国にローマ法王の訪問不満ですが、確かに良いTシャツが出ている可能性がこれより？ CIFの信念は - 敬意のサービスの多くの年にギャラリーから - あなたはローマ法王のTシャツに独自のデザインで、andrew.brownどんな聖Father.Sendそれらについての自分の気持ちに@ guardian.coまで来て望んでいる
- Iran bans Valentine's day
Cupid beware: Iran says it's cracking down on the symbols of Valentine's Day.The annual homage to romance on February 14 has become popular in recent years in Iran and other places in the Middle East.But Iran's semiofficial... キューピッドは注意してください：イランはイランでは近年、中東East.Butイランの半官半民の他の場所で人気となっている、それが2月14日にロマンスバレンタインDay.The年間のオマージュのシンボルを厳しく取り締まると言っている...
- Pope speaks of the Turin Shroud as an 'icon written with blood'
TURIN: Pope Benedict XVI has paid homage to the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, which he described as an ''icon''. トゥーリンは：ローマ法王ベネディクト16。聖骸布の、多くの考えは、イエスキリスト、彼は。。u0026#39;。。u0026#39;アイコン。。u0026#39;。。u0026#39;と記述の埋葬布に敬意を払ってきました
- Albums of 2010, No 1: Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III)
Was it cerebral hip-hop? Freaked-out funk? Or an updated Innervisions? There is no point trying to pigeonhole the Guardian's favourite album of 2010 – just sit back and enjoySome years the most celebrated albums are perfect jewels whose brilliance derives from focus and consistency. Guardian critics' two favourite albums of 2010, however, are more like treasure chests, where the whole point is abundance and some stones may be more precious than others. Yet they point in opposite directions: Kanye West's towards the celebrity self and Janelle Monáe's towards the wider world — Me v Us, as Neil Tennant recently put it when talking about modern pop. At just 25, Monáe is absurdly, vertiginously talented. Although 2007's Metropolis: The Chase Suite had a cult following, a lot of people's first exposure to her was a YouTubed appearance on Letterman in May, performing Tightrope. Tiny in her tuxedo, she had that rare and compelling combination of razzle-dazzle exhibitionism with a sense of something mysterious and withheld. It was, in the words of the James Brown routine she unapologetically homaged, Star Time. Nina Simone used to complain that though she moved between styles people always labeled her jazz because she was black. The same goes for Monáe and R&B. It's part of the mix on The ArchAndroid but it's uselessly reductive as a general description. You could extrapolate whole albums from single tracks here: a tough, cerebral hip-hop record from Dance Or Die, an updated Innervisions from Locked Inside, a freaked-out funk opus from Mushrooms & Roses, and so on. She belongs to the tradition of OutKast, Prince, David Bowie and Funkadelic – artists who command so many genres that they become one themselves. The ArchAndroid is proudly OTT, as any record that purports to tell the それを脳ヒップホップか？びびるアウトファンク？または更新するInnervisions？ただで最も有名なアルバムが輝き焦点との整合性から派生して完璧な宝石ですenjoySome年と座って - 2010年のガーディアンのお気に入りのアルバムを整理したしようとしても意味がないです
- Handel museum HQ to pay homage to Hendrix
One was the psychedelic king of the electric guitar; the other the harpsichord virtuoso whose choral works thrilled the court of George I.And for just a few months at the height of the swinging 60s their lives - separated by more... 1つは、エレキギターのサイケデリック王;その合唱ジョージIの裁判所に喜んで動作し、スイング60生活の高さでわずか数ヶ月、他のチェンバロの巨匠 - 詳細で区切って...
- Treasures from Budapest | Visual art review
Royal Academy, LondonIt is understandable that publicists for this exhibition chose to put Egon Schiele's 1915 work Two Women Embracing on the posters. Sex sells, and drawing does not come any sexier than Schiele's transfixing image, whose ultimate provocation is the way one of the women looks around at the artist to show that she is gratifying his fantasy. But there is more to the foregrounding of this erotic masterpiece than commerce: it exemplifies a theme that runs through this once-in-a-lifetime show.From the first room, where Hungarian gothic altarpieces are juxtaposed with Italian Renaissance delights, to the last, where Schiele gives you a final thrill, the art of central Europe is richly mingled with extraordinary works from the west that are in Hungary's public collections. I've never seen such a generous loan from one country's museums – by comparison, the Hermitage exhibit at the RA was quite cautious. This is a true blockbuster, practically a museum in itself, stuffed with surprises and marvels. Highlights include a portrait by Frans Hals that proves him the equal of his contemporary Rembrandt, a pair of working-class heroes painted by Goya, a Raphael homage to Da Vinci and, oh yes, a couple of Leonardo's own greatest designs. And that merely scratches the surface.The thread that connects it all is a vision of Europe. Western Europe's artistic development has been written as a march of progress since the Renaissance. Hungarian collectors fully subscribed to that version, and bought some supreme Italian works. But here you see those paragons alongside carved wooden saints from Hungarian churches in a way that expands your sense of the variety and greatness of the continent's heritage. European art through Hungarian eyes is a landscape made new.Rati ロイヤルアカデミーは、LondonItは、この展覧会の時事評論は、エゴンシーレの1915作品ポスターに抱きしめるふたりの女を置くことを選んだことは理解できる
- Lucian Freud storms the Pompidou Centre
Celebrated in London, New York and now in a major show in Paris, Lucian Freud is one of our greatest living painters. But will his work stand the test of timeIn Lucian Freud's painting Two Irishmen in W11, the bare floorboards of his studio support a white armchair in which he has seated a big, ochre-faced man in a dark suit. Just behind him stands a younger figure with unkempt hair, a dazed expression and a tight-fitting black jacket. The relationship between the two is electrifying. Are they gangsters? But then, after a while, taking in the gold ring on the hand of the seated man, you realise they are, in fact, Renaissance clerics. Or that's how I interpret it. The older man is Freud's homage to the enthroned Popes painted by Raphael, Velázquez – and by his friend Francis Bacon. And the relationship with the younger man could be seen as his tribute to Titian's painting of Pope Paul III and his nephews.Such grand and confident references to the Old Masters bring us straight to the question: how great a painter is Freud? Is 21st-century Britain truly harbouring an artist who can deal on equal terms with Titian and Rembrandt? It's a question clearly asked by a lavish new exhibition in Paris: banners bearing Lucian Freud's name have been slung over the shafts and girders of the Pompidou Centre, announcing a show that has the feel of France's bouquet to a living master. It comes hot on the heels of an equally reverent exhibition in New York. At 88, Freud is one of the most famous painters in the world. But is he the greatest – and if he is, how great is that?Zebras, top hats and grand sofas Lucian Freud: L'Atelier (the studio) is not a chronological retrospective but something more imaginative, an examination of Freud at w _NULL_
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