English Satire
The Visual Text analogy
Dogma (1999)
A Film Askew Production
Dogma (1999) was a satirical film on the Catholic Church and its rules and superstitions. Two angels, Loki, the angel of...
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The centerpiece of Irving Petlin’s exhibition of paintings and drawings at Kent Gallery is The Entry of Christ into Washington (2005), a tripartite canvas of about five by 12 feet. It’s...
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The centerpiece of Irving Petlin’s exhibition of paintings and drawings at Kent Gallery is The Entry of Christ into Washington (2005), a tripartite canvas of about five by 12 feet. It’s...
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If they watched the overnight vigil in Saint Peter's Square as the Pope lay dying, the good doctors of the Netherlands must have shaken their heads in bewilderment. "Watson, the needle," Sherlock H...
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On Dec. 8, Chinese and French news services reported that Iran had stopped billing its oil exports in dollars.Americans might never hear this news, as the independence of the U.S. media was destroy...
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The Danish director Lars Von Trier said a period of depression has left him unable to work and he has doubts about when he will return to filmmaking.In an interview published Saturday in the Politi...
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A church that creates any kind of fear or apprehension in its parishioners is not a church that I ever wish to attend. Acting one's age is extremely overrated!...
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Jan 27 (Reuters) - George Habash, whose PFLP guerrilla group
hijacked an Air France plane in 1976, prompting Israel's raid on
Entebbe airport to free the hostages, has died in Jordan. Habash, the ...
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The New York Post's Washington bureau chief, Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, died Sunday of cancer at age 59.Orin-Eilbeck, who died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, started her career at the Post i...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE STORM OVER IMMIGRATION (The Washington Post, Washington)
THE VIRULENCE and breadth of opposition to the Senate
immigration bill has k...
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A clutch of modern pagans honored Zeus at a 1,800-year-old temple in the heart of Athens on Sunday _ the first known ceremony of its kind held there since the ancient Greek religion was outlawed by...
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The Visual Text Analogy of "dogma" a Film Askew Production
Petlin\'d5s Ambiguous Agitprop Pushes Dialogue, Not Dogma
