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...seeing Japan simply as a monolith, the news weeklies overlook fundamental issues within Japanese society, issues they prefer to cover with images of millions of like-looking, like-thinking Japanese trotting off to the factory and the driving range...
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...show suggests surprising formal continuities in works whose subjects are radically different. "Monolith-- The Face of Half Dome" (1927), one of Adams's mountain scenes, is paired with his decisively urban 1940 print of the RCA Building in New York. Both works focus on a structure of monumental scale. Yet Adams crops both photos so that the viewer sees parts of other, similar details in the surroundings--other mountains in the former, other buildings in the latter. The effect is to focus our eye on the overall scene and atmosphere rather than simply the massiveness of the central subject...
...manic. Instead of sleek uninterrupted planes of metal and glass, there are balconies, loggias and shady brise-soleils. If the new Getty becomes a lively, civilized place, it will be because, for all the white-on-white elegance, it is not pristine and hermetic, not another gorgeous monolith. The rugged terrain and Meier's good planning sense have dictated a dense urban messiness, with odd angles and almost ungainly juxtapositions, rather than some prissy classical grid over which buildings as jewels are dispersed just...
Independence! Self-determination! Freedom! As the Soviet Union's many ethnic and religious groups take up these rallying cries with increasing conviction, it is easy to forget the dark side of nationalism. The first reaction to the disintegration of the menacing Soviet monolith may be euphoria, but all too often, as demonstrated by other countries where ethnic rivalries have shattered national integrity, bloodshed soon follows. In Yugoslavia fierce fighting has killed more than 300 people since Croatia declared independence on June 25. In Sri Lanka an eight-year war between Tamil guerrillas and the Sinhalese majority has left...