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...until 1941 when Hitler halted its official use. Yet Haacke's previous works, like 1994's "Ernst Junger," make it hard to fully absolve the artist from Giuliani's accusations. In that installation, done also in Fraktur, the artist directly associates the typeface with Hitler. Given that this motif was also used in 1988's "Und Ihr habt doch gesiegt" (And You Were Victorious after All), it might be more accurate to accuse Haacke of being overly self-derivative than of trivializing the Holocaust...
...your average Nokia-less Harvard freshman, with a phone card he often mistakes for his ID. His left pocket is cargo. He is G.I. Mike, with a silver mini army knife and a climbing Carabiner advertising 1-800-MARINES. “I have this whole military motif going on. [I would join the Marines] if there was a war or something.” He pauses. “But not for kicks.” That must be the left pocket talking...
...compensate for increased rent, Latzanakis plans on including a new component to the current Baskin Robbins and Dunkin' Donuts motif: a California-based sandwich shop called Togo, to tap the lunch and dinner market...
...savors every moment of human contact. In this book, reflections on human relations and the subtleties of the self outshine everything else. Raban deliciously excerpts snippets of conversations and reflections that peer into the souls of his acquaintances and closest friends. The sea itself serves only as a recurring motif that provides logical connections between the European explorers and natives of the past, the fishermen and disillusioned urban dwellers of the present and the young daughter and dying father of the author's real life. In a book that you assume will focus on long, flowing descriptions of the beautiful...
Much like the Harvard Square Coop itself, which received a facelift in 1998, the building on the corner of Bow and Arrow streets will maintain its original structure while integrating an antique motif, attempting to re-establish the look it had years...