![]() After an injury derailed his promising dance career, Ivan shifts his studies to finance as a way to secure his own, and his elderly parents', material stability. The most aesthetically sensitive, yet also most pragmatic character, is probably Ivan, a talented ex-dancer who sees art simply as a means to an end. Fatima, a poor barista and struggling dancer, while embracing environmental causes, cannot afford the steep cost of locally sourced food. Fyodor's lover can denounce his meatpacking job while blithely espousing capital punishment. Regardless, it appears that the cost of facile piety or "aesthetic anger" is mostly borne by the socially disadvantaged - be they laborers or artists. Fyodor, the meatpacking worker, while an intuitive artist - since he perceives the formal beauty between a well-trimmed cut of meat and that of a modernist painting's abstract elements - is constantly derided by his vegetarian lover for his "murderous" profession and his lack of appreciation for the theoretical aspects of art. ![]() Seamus' disdain for his peers' lack of aesthetic rigor masks his insecurity and corroding shame that contribute to his writer's block. ![]() Seamus, who works as a cook at a local hospice to finance his MFA in poetry, is undone by the hatred and violence inflicted upon him by a gay "townie" during a casual sexual encounter. At the same time, there seems to be little convergence or understanding between the town residents and the students, or among the students themselves. In a way, Iowa City is a contradiction - as a college town surrounded by barren, windswept landscape and hilly terrains, it is both coarse and rarefied, peopled by meatpacking plant workers, laborers, artists, writers, forming a racially diverse and sexually fluid population. Physical intimacy offers the characters temporary respite if not intellectual or ideological solidarity. While the harsh, wintry Midwestern setting - with its slate-colored sky, dirty, slushy snow in the winter, diseased ash trees - seems more Gothic than Romantic, this barren framing intensifies the characters' corporeal desires, manifest via their sweaty bodies in overheated, indoor space. Now they are partners, giving Saudi Arabia a commercial voice in golf’s premier organization.Taylor's setting of the open Iowa landscape both references and poetically subverts the campus novel's pastoral elements - those that mimic the lush milieu of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was at the Canadian Open that week and said pointedly about any player who joined LIV or was thinking about it: “Have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?” The announcement comes a year after LIV Golf began. The PGA Tour ended its expensive fight with Saudi Arabia’s golf venture and now is joining forces with it, making a stunning announcement Tuesday of a merger that creates a commercial operation with the Public Investment Fund and the European tour.Īs part of the deal, the sides immediately are dropping all lawsuits involving LIV Golf.įrom the golf side, still to be determined is how players like Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson can rejoin the PGA Tour after defecting last year for signing bonuses reported to be in the $150 million range.įrom the commercial side, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund joins the PGA Tour board of directors and leads the new venture as chairman, though the PGA Tour will have a majority stake.
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