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'Insensitive' Van Gogh souvenirs removed from sale amid backlash - CNN Style
"This case feels like a small but clear example of the cynicism and commercialism that has affected the modern art landscape, as mental health and mental illness are treated as a joke -- which they aren't -- or as a novelty."
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Consumos web. 02/17/2022
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Consumos web. 02/10/2022
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"Así como la Ñ es para el español, el 'ahorita' es para el español de México y para toda nuestra idiosincrasia porque concentra la historia completa y el orgullo de este país", le dice a BBC Mundo. "Yo creo que básicamente podría decirse que el 'ahorita' sirve para no obedecer. ¿Cómo le respondía uno con un 'no' a los españoles que daban órdenes? Pues se le decía 'ahorita', por supuesto",
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Consumos web. 01/29/2022
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‘Fight Club’ Author Chuck Palahniuk Responds to China’s New Ending – The Hollywood Reporter
The author also said that he saw the irony in many Americans’ angry response to China’s actions, given that his books are banned in many locations across the U.S.
tags: mojigatería mundial censura censura social China decadencia cultural
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Consumos web. 01/27/2022
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How The Animals inspired one of The Beatles greatest songs
I like some of the things the Animals try to do,” McCartney recalled in 1966, “like the song Eric Burdon wrote about places in Newcastle on the flip of one of their hits. I still want to write a song about the places in Liverpool where I was brought up
tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlesongs
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The Beatles song that uses just one chord
For almost the entirety of the track, the song stays on the C Major chord. No variations, so suspensions, no additional notes. But the complication comes when Lennon sings “it is not dying”. That’s because one of the loops, that of a Hammond organ, is playing a Bb Major chord. The rest of the song continues to play C Major, but Lennon’s vocal lines highlights the Bb Major to the extent that chord has to be considered a Bb Major/C chord, thereby ruining the pipe dream of recording a song with only one chord.
tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlesongs
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Consumos web. 01/22/2022
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La humanidad está abandonando la razón, según un estudio - Levante-EMV
la creciente irrelevancia de la verdad fáctica en el discurso público es parte de una tendencia creciente que comenzó hace décadas: durante los últimos cuarenta años, el interés público ha experimentado un cambio acelerado de lo colectivo a lo individual, y de la racionalidad a la emoción.
tags: neotenia decadencia cultural
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Consumos web. 01/06/2022
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The Beatles' Let It Be sessions: the real story | Louder
George Martin, being the gentleman that he is, realised that I had been compromised in a way, and he saw fit to put me at ease about the situation. He took me to lunch, and said: ‘You’re not to worry about a thing.’ I was feeling really awkward about the whole thing, and he was completely at ease about the situation. Because he is confident of his own abilities.
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Consumos web. 12/14/2021
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Cop who silenced Beatles last gig speaks for first time
“If that’s my lasting image of life, if that’s what people remember me for, that’s not bad. Thousands, millions of people don’t get remembered at all.”
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Consumos web. 12/08/2021
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“The police demand that they turn down the sound or stop the concert. They tell Mal they intend to arrest the Beatles. At that point, Mal turns off George Harrison’s amplifier. Of course, George is very unhappy with that and barks at Mal.
tags: Beatles beatlealbums MalEvans beatlepeople beatlehistory
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Consumos web. 11/20/2021
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Voormann briefly played bass with the Fab Four while their original bassist Stuart Sutcliffe took a break, and went on to join John, Paul, George, and Ringo on a variety of post-Beatles projects – including Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band and Harrison’s All Things Must Pass album
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Consumos web. 11/09/2021
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Piden que sea ilegal fotografiar a una mujer mientras da el pecho en público | PHOTOLARI
“Me niego a ceder ante un hombre que se fue a casa con fotos mías y de mi bebé”, explica la madre en la recogida de firmas que ha organizado en Change.org y que ya suma casi 30.000.
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la antropóloga Malena Castilla destacó: “gran parte es población rural dispersa, en zonas que bordean los campos de los empresarios sojeros que se establecieron sobre territorios indígenas ancestrales y de pequeños productores del Chaco”.
tags: agrotóxicos