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Whatever protection this (local ordinance) of a First Amendment has against filters, it has "painfully" little protection against IDs.
Since Stein's fans tend to fetishize all things experimental, this straightforward, painfully autobiographical book (Stein was hurt by a failed love affair the summer she wrote it) has generally been dismissed as wooden, of interest only for its lesbian subject matter.
And anyone with an interest in the history of economic thought will find the tale of how Keynes gradually, painfully arrived at his ideas--and of how his emerging vision clashed with rival schools of thought--fascinating.
It is this quality--or lack of quality--of simply transplanting the real and making it into "shocking" art, which is in my opinion the bane of contemporary art today, nowhere more painfully than at the Brooklyn Museum.
The conciliatory policies that painfully emerged after the bloodshed brought the Protestant Prince of Navarre to the throne as Henri IV (1589–1610), but not before he promised to convert to Catholicism.