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...siding, copper wire, even heavy cast-iron manhole covers from the potholed streets to be sold for scrap. The housing authority complains that aluminum downspouts are swiped from its buildings within hours of installation. Trash-strewn vacant lots along the river stand in stark contrast to the gleaming Gateway Arch of St. Louis, in plain sight less than a mile away across the river...
...political novice, was known to a scant 3% of West Virginia's voters. Flanked by his wife Dee, Caperton lit out for the hollows in a van, spent $3.2 million of his own money and ran away with last November's election, upsetting powerful three-term Republican incumbent Arch Moore...
...long-suppressed and now acclaimed production of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground at Moscow's Theater for Young Spectators, the withdrawn and embittered central character repeatedly pushes with all his might against the immovable proscenium arch at the side of the stage. The gesture is an apt visual metaphor not only for a melancholy nobody's passion to smash the barriers of loneliness but also for the yearning of the whole Moscow drama world to break down the confines of habit and tradition. Everywhere one goes in the theater these days, the same artistic self-criticism is heard: there...
...artist Melchior Lorichs, who lived in the Ottoman court. Like the Italian piece, Lorichs' works show the monarch surrounded by temporal and religious glory. He appears to be grim and strong-willed; in "Suleyman I with a View of Sueymaniye Mosque," the regent stands to the side of an arch which looks over the elaborate Mosque established by Suleyman for his people. Above the arch the name of Allah is inscribed in a testament to the fact that even the Western artists understood the Ottoman ruler's Islamic faith and rejection of personal credit for the glory of Constantinople...
Futurism made the most noise at the start. The futurist painters' manifestos of 1910, written by that inspired poet and arch-hypester Filippo T. Marinetti and signed by a clutch of brilliantly gifted artists (Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini), declared war on cultural history -- "the enthusiasm for everything worm-eaten, rotting with filth, eaten away by time...