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...classical musicians and rock acts like the Doors and for psychedelic fetes put on by LSD promoter Timothy Leary. He later revived a dormant medium by establishing the aptly named New York City gallery Let There Be Neon, creating installations for performance artist Laurie Anderson and emblazoning the façade of a 78-story Hong Kong building...
...that encourages them to make their own connections among the masks, sculptures, robes and musical instruments created across the ages and the continents. There's no obvious narrative. "It's a museum for adults," says Martin. Australian Aboriginal artists have been commissioned to create the ceiling and façade of one part of the building, and a living "vertical garden" of plants sprouts from another. The museum is surrounded by a forested parkland and pools of water, further blurring the lines between the West and elsewhere; between the observed and the observing; between Paris and the world...
...impatience with out moded customs is now largely confined to attempts at jolting his wife's realm out of its lethargy. "There is a school of thought," Prince Philip said in an official speech as Elizabeth's husband, "which says, 'What was good enough for my fa ther is good enough for me.' I have no quarrel with this sentiment at all, so long as it is not used as an excuse for stagnation . . . but do not forget that the great position of British industry was won when we led the world in inventive imagination...
...bombing victims. I know that brave Londoners will bounce back, as they have so many times before. It is high time the British and U.S. governments go after the root cause of the Jihadist problem, namely the fundamentalist mullahs and Islamist preachers who hide behind a façade of being religious men as they sow seeds of hatred and violence among young Muslims. Those preachers are evil and should be treated as terrorists and fully prosecuted. That would rid the Muslim community of some real troublemakers and ultimately help young and mainstream Muslims. Rob Keshav Overland Park, Kansas...
...life." Most people forget about doing that when times are hard. Chipepo Chibesakunda Berlin I cannot understand Time's praise for a politician like Berlin's Wowereit. It was outrageous to feature a Clinton-like character whose sole contribution to Germany has been to paint a feel-good façade over the catastrophic financial woes besetting the economic engine of the European Union. No amount of fashion shows, film shoots and political correctness can distract Berliners from the fact that Germany is facing its most serious crisis since World War II. Wowereit and other Social Democrat party leaders still...