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...East Berlin, they've torn down monuments less offensive than this...
...crushed autos (John Chamberlain, born 1927) and Coca-Cola cans (Guess Who, 1928-87) spurned by the cultural critic of Beijing. And, again as you might expect, they are sympathetically, even rhapsodically treated in the catalog, written in part by the show's curators -- Christos Joachimides in Berlin and Norman Rosenthal, the exhibitions secretary of the Royal Academy. "The time was right," carols Rosenthal, reflecting on the postwar dominance of American art, "the market was right, and it was perhaps inevitable that after 1945 the American way should become the role model in art as much as in architecture, popular...
They are part of the Beantown zeitgeist. To crib a phrase from Mel Brooks, their trails and ultimate failures are of world-wide importance. As far as the average Hub resident knows, the front page of the International Herald Tribune reads "SOX WIN (Berlin: It's War, see page 3)" every...
Four years later, the United States is helping to rebuild the Russian economy, white rule in South Africa is on the verge of extinction and chunks of the Berlin Wall are now sold in souvenir shops...
...lamb do lie down together, everyone is surprised. Hate is such a ferocious force that we are awed to see it fade away. Yet we have seen that happen with amazing speed in the past four years as one of the two great conflicts of our age vanished: the Berlin Wall fell, the cold war ended, the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, in a moment that astonishes the spirit as well as the mind, the other great enmity recedes as Israelis and Palestinians embrace. "In my heart," says Israel's former President, Chaim Herzog, "I feel we are living history...