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...These two complementary and beautifully produced books belong to Wolf's larger, long-term project of documenting his adopted city. The slimmer volume, Outside, brings together his depictions of Hong Kong's hulking, close-packed apartment complexes, seen as megaliths and reduced to hard graphic planes. In page after page of images framed to reveal neither sky nor street, the viewer perceives not Hong Kong's iconic skyline but only dizzyingly repetitive patterns of verticals, both impressive and oppressive in their tyrannical two-dimensionality...
...House says it understands that the solution to the war in Afghanistan is not purely military. Officials have declared a concomitant "civilian surge" of experts to bolster the embattled country's bureaucracy and economy along with the greater number of troops. But if the U.S. is truly committed to long-term security and stability in Afghanistan, it should be investing in the one pivotal sector that has received scant attention from the international community: education...
...pretty," says poor young Pip of the slightly older Estella. "I think she's very proud." Extraordinarily pretty and proudly defiant: that was the indelible first impression the 17-year-old Jean Simmons made on moviegoers in David Lean's Great Expectations in 1946, at the beginning of a long, full career that lasted from her early teens to her death on Jan. 22 at 80, in Santa Monica, Calif., of lung cancer. The actress's screen impact in her early flush of stardom could also be defined by another pair of clashing adjectives that a British distributor slapped onto...
...weeks in theaters, her sports-inspirational drama, The Blind Side, dropped out of the top 10 (all the way down to 11), but it ain't done yet. Bullock won Best Actress awards from the Golden Globe crowd and, on Jan. 23, the Screen Actors Guild; the former long shot is now the favorite to cop an Oscar (over previous front runner Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia). There's no question that the movie's out-of-nowhere success - a $234 million domestic gross on a modest $29 budget - has propelled Bullock toward the front of the Oscar fray, with...
...difference that the influx of publishers has had on the the market. "The fact that now we have a lot of publishers that have come in from America and Europe, we have access to a lot more [books]," she says. "It's growing, but we still have a long...