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...playful language and good cheer, even under the most harrowing circumstances. After all, most were responses written in the glow of morale boosted by receiving news from home that life was still normal there, that Dad was still priding himself on the tomatoes bursting ripe in the vegetable garden, that Little Brother had just smacked his first stand-up double or that Sis had been accepted at the local university. The mundane details of life in the U.S.--the score of Friday night's football game, the pattern of a soft cotton dress bought special on Main Street--have always...
DIED. WILLIAM BOYLE, 88, visionary banker who developed the first bank-issued credit card, the Franklin Charge Account Plan, in 1951, paving the way for Visa and MasterCard and hastening a new age of consumer spending; in Garden City...
...happened to be searching for a mother lode of soul, New Jersey probably isn't the first place you'd look. But if you take the Garden State Parkway south from New York City and exit in the town of Pleasantville, after a few turns you'll find a squat, beige building with a sign outside that reads DARKCHILD STUDIOS. The immediate vicinity seems intensely, iconically suburban--there's even a crossing guard out front with a hand-held stop sign--but as it turns out, Pleasantville is a good deal funkier than its name might suggest...
Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century painting The Garden of Delights is one of the wildest pictures in Western art, but it may have met its match for feverish description in this book's hallucinogenic meditation on it. With cinematic fluency, Williams slips in and out of the painting, riffing on everything from her Mormon upbringing to the survival of the monarch butterfly. Strange and endlessly fascinating, her reflections on Bosch's images of Heaven, Hell and Earth take on the burning urgency of a dream. "Can a painting be a prayer?" she asks. Her answer is yes, prayer. Incantation...
...only genuinely disturbing aspect of the ubiquity of advertising--the real reason to get nervous--is that it has begun to supplant what was formerly civic and public. There's no Candlestick Park anymore, just 3Com Park, and now there's a PacBell Park to match. The venerable Boston Garden was replaced not too long ago by the Fleet Center: a city erased, its role played by a bank. A little town in the Pacific Northwest just renamed itself after a dotcom company in return for a generous donation. I won't mention the name here, since I figure advertising...