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...pillowy. Not a word you typically get to use when describing a building; but Future Systems doesn't make typical buildings. And its mostly windowless exterior is covered by 15,000 anodized aluminum disks packed in rows against a field of stucco painted "Yves Klein blue," the dark blue patented by the French artist. Depending on how you think about it, those disks can look like sequins or coins. Either way, for a department store, that's an apt association. But Kaplicky, a soft-spoken man with a very sober disposition, likes to cite another, very unsober inspiration, a Paco...
Since Hegel, western European writers and leaders have been pushing the idea of progress, putting darkness, savagery, the past, and societies outside of Western civilization on one end of the spectrum, and light, consciousness, technology, the future, and the modern Western world at the other end. Of all the civilizations and cultures that once lay beyond the dominion (and ken) of Western civilization, those located in Africa have been portrayed as the furthest back on the dark end of the continuum. Hegel wrote, “Africa proper…is the land of childhood, which lying beyond...
CORRECTION The Feb. 25 story "Lights on at 'Shots in the Dark' " incorrectly stated that the publication of author Richard Bradley's 2002 book, "American Son," was complicated by lawsuits. In fact, no lawsuits were actually pursued--Bradley was only threatened with legal action...
...Stiller had to prove that he was not just a “really, really ridiculously good looking” male model, but also a talented actor.Though the comedic actor was not required to deliver a “eugoogooly,” with a pair of dark sunglasses on his nose, he did showcase his famous Tom Cruise impression, which he first revealed on his doomed sketch comedy show, “The Ben Stiller Show.” In a press conference after the roast, Stiller said he would “be excited about the idea?...
There were two types of fame on display at the press conference Monday morning in a grand, sky-lit room at the back of the New York Public library. There was director James Cameron, towering like a a six-foot-plus druidic monolith in a dark jacket and black turtleneck. And there was a light tan limestone box about two feet long lying on a table in front of Cameron - which the Titanic director was presenting as the burial box of Jesus Christ. All things being equal, we know who would be the bigger draw. (It was John Lennon...