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...American Media's reason for closing down the paper was that the paper's circulation had dropped from over a million in its late-'80s-early-'90s heyday to a current circulation under 100,000. Old-time staffers complain the paper's quality went in the commode when the veterans were replaced by young comedy writers. But the real explanation, I think, is that fake news has spread beyond The Onion and the satirical TV shows to the front pages of the most distinguished newspapers. Over the past six years we've read such headlines...
...office in the back of a storefront on St. Mark's Place, only a few blocks from where CBGB had closed the month before. At 74, weakened and depleted by chemotherapy, Kristal still exuded the charisma that had made him such a lionized figure during New York's punk heyday. He was even wearing dark sunglasses indoors...
...Victorian times by the sort of upper-middle-class men (not women) who dressed for dinner in the far reaches of the Empire to keep up appearances in front of the natives. They stressed the benefits of order, hierarchy, muscular Protestantism and good sportsmanship. Even in its Victorian heyday, of course, not many in Britain behaved in this way. The world's first mass working class, shuffling from factories to boozy music halls, reveled in a raucous sentimentality. In the cities, Protestantism (or any religion), be it rugged or weedy, rarely got a look, and sportsmanship meant cheering on your...
Trusted by the Royal Navy, Dent provided chronometers for some of the 19th century's most famous expeditions, including Charles Darwin's 1831 journey aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. In its heyday, the company held Royal Warrants from British kings and queens, Russian tsars and Japanese emperors. It was given the honor of making the Standard Astronomical Clock, a clock to which all others are measured, at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. And perhaps most notably, in 1859 Dent created what may be the world's most famous clock, the Great Clock (a.k.a. Big Ben) at London's Houses of Parliament...
...this happened? The reasons are many, but one of the most important is that after the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, advanced painting had moved down ever more restricted avenues, into Color Field pictures made by pouring paint directly onto canvas or Minimalist canvases of one color. By the early 1960s, the supremely influential critic Clement Greenberg was ordaining that painting had a historic destiny that could be realized only in work in which distinct form and deep space gave way to flat, thin washes of color. Some very good art would meet that description, by Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris...