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Maybe not. He once snarled: "I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room." But in the end it was Rothko whose endurance gave out. By then, he had completed more than 30 canvases: dark, foreboding panels in which his characteristic horizontal bars of color were replaced by explosive verticals or squares that seem like gateways to something ineffable. Unwilling finally to imagine this work on the walls of a society hangout, Rothko withdrew from the project...
...Left in Dark Times By Bernard-Henri Levy Random House; 233 pages...
...century) Levy is in full finger-wagging mode in this latest polemic. Unlike the grounded, tangible arguments of 2006's excellent American Vertigo--in which he roamed the U.S. à la Tocqueville and painted a portrait of a nation both majestic and mad--there's an intellectual ranginess to Dark Times that makes it difficult to pin down. The object of Levy's ire is the left, or rather, "the monsters that the new laboratories of what we in Europe call Leftism and what Americans call liberalism are giving birth to." In its better days, says Levy, the left stood...
...McCain formed his unorthodox plan for winning the White House in the dark days of midsummer, during a time when his campaign was defined by small crowds, logistical missteps and an inability to break through the media's fascination with Obama. At the time, McCain's aides openly vented their frustration, both with the political climate, which favored Democrats, and with the media, which they believed had unjustly soured on McCain. It was an environment that seemed tailor-made for Schmidt, McCain's new day-to-day campaign manager, who had earned his stripes in the hardscrabble world...
...book, you recount a conversation you had with Jon Stewart during a commercial break on the Daily Show in which you both agreed the campaign wouldn't get "disgusting." Were you right? These men are really good men. They are not low, creepy, dark, gut players. You look at Obama and you realize he took down a machine without raising his voice. And you look at McCain and he's been the victim of dirty playing in the past. But I also think that in a brute contest in a 50-50 nation with so much power at stake...