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...same Solomon and the object's provenance is cloudy. Few experts believe that the father-and-son team's Unified Kingdom could have stretched, as Kings claims, "from the [Euphrates] River ... to the Border of Egypt." A vocal minority of historians known as biblical minimalists claim that most of Kings was a myth concocted hundreds of years later to legitimize a later regime. ("He was making it up," says University of Copenhagen minimalist Niels Peter Lemche, of Kings' anonymous editor.) The minimalists argue that there is no good reason beyond piety to think that Jerusalem...
...wealthy travelers who frequent the chain, the Amanresorts name (aman means peaceful in Sanskrit) can hardly be uttered without Zecha in the same breath. The Indonesian native did not just found a resort chain; he perfected a concept. Minimalist in design and complementary to often remote, natural settings, each retreat is a unique encapsulation of the culture and country in which it sits. Pieces of his paradise are scattered mainly across Asia, but there are Zecha resorts as well in France, the U.S. and Morocco. "To create a simple meal, " says Zecha, "is often more difficult than to create...
Steve Grossman, former chair of the Democratic National Committee and possible Masschussetts gubernatorial candidate in 2002, also holds an M.B.A from Harvard. He says he is skeptical of Bush's minimalist style of leadership...
...movie, opened in Japan in January and will debut soon in Asia and the U.S. Internationally better known as Takeshi Kitano (his real name), he has garnered critical acclaim as an inventive filmmaker (his 1997 movie Hana-Bi won the grand prize at Venice in 1997) and a striking minimalist actor...
Still less is the austerity of a Minimalist work going to be seen as an affirmation of virtue, like a hair shirt on a saint. Rightly or wrongly, it is more likely to be seen as the Emperor's new clothes--a lack, a way of frustrating expectations with arid polemics about the arguable limits and nature of art itself. Between (say) the bricks, the cinder blocks and the parallel stripes on one hand and (say) the gilded statue of General Sherman on horseback at the corner of Central Park by Augustus Saint-Gaudens on the other, a vast gulf...