He desperately needed to be lovedI love people is a mantra repeated throughout the filmbut he also craved relevance, which landed him in the middle of an artistic and aesthetic crisis
I've never seen the point of it
r001_0025_0014_ReadingFair The Vocational and Horticultural Exhibits of the Reading Fair Vocational and Horticultural Exhibits at the Reading Fair, Berks County, PA, are shown in this silent film
As Olesya Turkina writes in Soviet Space Dogs, a book lavishly illustrated with kitschy canine-cosmonaut imagery, Under socialism the niche occupied by popular culture in capitalist society was subject to strict ideological control. Because the Kremlin considered the dogs ideologically safe, Turkina continues, they effectively became the first Soviet pop stars, appearing on every product imaginablematchboxes, razor blades, postcards, stamps, chocolates, cigarettes
Wales Online reports that primary school children are now vaping, with 10% displaying clinically significant behavioural difficultiesa stark reminder that these addictive products are reaching ever-younger age groups