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...colonial conflict on a sprinkle of islands 8,000 miles from home. Only a few months before the Argentines took the Falkland Islands in April of last year, the Prime Minister's approval rating in the polls stood at 25%, the lowest of any British leader since World War II. Once war broke out, her unflinching determination to bring victory back from the South Atlantic stamped Thatcher permanently in the public mind as the bold, decisive leader she had always wanted...
...exhibition. The pieces explore theatricality through participatory spectacle, through absurdity (as in Cezary Bodzianowski’s “Luna,” in which the artist attempts to rollerblade the circumference of a large, rotating drum), immersion (as in “Séance de Shadow II (bleu)” by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, a room saturated with the color blue whose lights turn on as the viewer passes by), or direct participation (as in “Falha” by Renata Lucas, a grid of plywood sheets that can be rearranged to create...
...consequences of this suburbanization are enormous. Think of how the U.S. was transformed, economically and socially, in the years after World War II, when GIs returned home and formed families that then fanned out to the suburbs. The comparison is not exact, of course, but it's compelling enough. The effects of China's suburbanization are just beginning to ripple across Chinese society and the global economy. It's easy to understand the persistent strength in commodity prices - steel, copper, lumber, oil - when you realize that in Emerald Riverside construction crews used more than three tons of steel...
...breed of director, steeped in movie lore and movie love, making smart films that were huge hits--and for the longest time, Oscar ignored them too. The Godfather won Best Picture, but its auteur, Francis Ford Coppola, was not named Best Director. (He won for The Godfather Part II.) Nor did the Academy give Spielberg an Oscar for Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark or E.T. (He had to wait till 1994, when Schindler's List took Best Picture and Best Director.) Martin Scorsese, by general acclamation the most intense and gifted director...
...Iraq for 100 years. “I don’t think he meant it literally,” Zinni said. “There will be a military-to-military relationship for a long time. We’re still in Europe 60 years [after World War II], which is how he meant it.” Zinni’s public remarks at the IOP yesterday addressed a range of topics that included rebuilding America’s foreign relations, transforming the American military, and responding to global climate change. He said that the U.S. has focused...