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...house has a genuinely lived-in feel, that's because its mastermind, the eccentric American artist Dennis Severs, resided here from 1979 until his death in 1999 as its historic inhabitants would have - without heat, electricity or running water. The California-born Severs shunned the 20th century, but by turning a dilapidated house into an artistic project he managed to bring the past back to life. His dream, he said, was for visitors to feel as though they had stepped into a painting. Fellow artists believe he succeeded; David Hockney called 18 Folgate Street "stunning," and actors regularly visit...
...Lynde.) There was the decision not to respond immediately to the Swift Boats for Truth ads ("John Kerry should have gotten pissed" says one former volunteer). There was the decision to leave get-out-the-vote operations to independent groups - known as 527s - rather than let the central operation mastermind the whole thing...
...always get from Jeezy’s ad-libs. (“YEEEEEEEAHHHHHH.”) Next comes “Money Maker,” a track that would annihilate the soul of any backpack hip-hop fan on contact. A track that officially makes Pharrell, the mastermind behind this war crime of a song, the most wretched living thing ever to use his voice or hands. The song is essentially Slim Thug’s “I Ain’t Heard Of That (Remix)” as performed by an asthmatic Rain Man. This...
...Getting the country where it is now has taken guts, though. "Back in 1991, there was no money, no food, no nothing," says noted Kazakhstan economist Rakhman Alshanov, a mastermind behind the early 1990s liberal economic reforms. Nazarbayev had to rule by decree. He twice dissolved the Parliament, and gave reformers the latitude to abruptly terminate the state's paternalistic support of industry as well as collective and state farms. "No more injections into a wooden leg - no more credits to big state-run industries," Alshanov explains. The message was straightforward: earn or else...
...where it is now, authoritarian ways have exhausted themselves," says Asylbek Bisenbayev, formerly Nazarbayev's spokesman and top strategist. Getting the country where it is now has taken guts, though. "Back in 1991, there was no money, no food, no nothing," says noted Kazakhstan economist Rakhman Alshanov, a mastermind behind the early 1990s liberal economic reforms. Nazarbayev had to rule by decree. He twice dissolved the Parliament - and gave reformers the latitude to abruptly terminate the state's paternalistic support of industry as well as collective and state farms. "No more injections into a wooden leg - no more credits...