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...soooooooo fed up with the umpteenth TIME 100 issue. I want to inform myself about world politics, the arts, the economy, science and so forth. I don't want to read this boring stuff. KERSTIN BEHNKE-GAPP Roemerberg, Germany...
Trump filed a libel suit in 1985 against the Chicago Tribune's architecture critic, Paul Gapp, for having written that his plan to build the world's highest building portended "an atrocious, ugly monstrosity, one of the silliest things anyone could inflict on New York or any other city." The judge ruled for the critic. Trump even sued Eddie and Julius Trump, two South Africans unrelated to him, who had run a small conglomerate for 20 years before expanding into the U.S. in the 1970s. "They're trying to use my name," said Donald, who lost a preliminary suit. Another...
...first sour note to mar the initial symphony of praise came from Pulitzer prize-winning Architecture Critic Paul Gapp of the Chicago Tribune. "The so-called memorial," he wrote, is "bizarre" because it is "neither a building nor sculpture." But of course it is precisely those unclassifiable qualities that make Lin's design so eminently right. It fits. At this time in the history of our architecture, and at this place in the monumental heart of Washington, additional buildings or sculptures would intrude. In retrospect, it is hard to conceive of anything but a horizontal landscape design that could...
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