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...first Americans to be accepted by the international Magnum photo agency, photographer Burt Glinn captured several defining moments of the cold war, including Fidel Castro's triumphant march across Cuba and seldom-seen images of daily life in the Soviet Union. Glinn turned his lens on seemingly unlikely subjects, transforming subtleties into iconic moments, as in his 1959 photograph of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev before the Lincoln Memorial. Glinn attributed that shot--his best-known work--to chance. "I was late, and I couldn't get to where everybody else was," he explained. "The most important thing that...
Champagne is known to be expensive, but Veuve Clicquot's Vertical Limit champagne cellar (right) by Porsche Design Studio takes the acquisition of bubbly to new heights. The 6-ft.-tall (1.8 m) Vertical Limit houses 12 magnums of vintage Veuve Clicquot?each behind a hand-soldered door?and costs $70,000. Only 15 have been made, and eight have already sold. This summer the cellar line develops further with a three-magnum model...
...journalist intent on capturing the suffering of the Vietnamese during the war, Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths was at first a hard sell in the U.S. Thanks in part to a lucrative shot of Jackie Kennedy in Cambodia, he kept working. His now classic 1971 book, Vietnam Inc., with its unprecedented texture and detail, dramatically influenced Americans' perception of the war. Griffiths, who had been in poor health...
...experiences in the concentration camps only to have it refused, in 1975, by one of two publishing houses in Hungary on the grounds that it was “anti-Semitic.” When he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002, it was considered his magnum opus The past hovers ominously over all of Kertész’s novels, though “Detective Story,” appearing in English for the first time, may be the exception. Originally written two years after “Fatelessness,” “Detective...
...Chain are limited to the atmosphere, however, and the omnipresent distortion adds merely another interesting twist to songs that dwell in familiar structural and lyrical territory. While “Distortion” ultimately hesitates to ascend either to the melodic or satiric heights of the Fields’ magnum opus, it presents an innovative new context for Merritt’s smirking brand of indie pop.Album-opener “Three-Way” jumps off with jangling fury, bursting to life with a shimmering lead keyboard and dueling guitars on a fuzzed-out new-wave riff. The instrumental...