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...late Monday was enraged that NATO and the European Union had forced him to adopt a new cease-fire with a rebel movement that NATO's own leaders had dubbed "terrorists," "extremists" and "murderers" only a few weeks ago. But the mob wasn't simply calling for a more robust counterinsurgency effort against the ethnic-Albanian guerrillas that had menaced the capital for weeks; they were baying for blood and vowing to drive all ethnic Albanians out of the city. If that hatred translates into random attacks on ethnic-Albanian communities, a civil war will have begun that will ultimately...
...From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe's wiseguy polemic of 1984, Wolfe was at a loss to explain how in mid-century America--a wealthy, robust nation unscarred by war--the business elites ended up settling upon puritanical Modernism as the official style of fat and happy capitalism. Mies was a big part of the reason. He arrived in New York at age 52, with little English but with the powerful support of the Museum of Modern Art. Philip Johnson, now the gray imp of American architecture but then MOMA's architecture curator, devoted important shows to Mies...
...Shake off passivity. We must recover some of the aesthetic activism that came into play in the Astor Place Riots of May, 1849, when New York audiences of Shakespeare divided their loyalties between the American actor Edwin Forrest and the British actor William Charles Macready. Forrest gave a crude, robust, vehement interpretation of Macbeth. Macready was more cerebral...
...irresponsible behavior, an unwillingness to accept consequences of behavior, demanding yet unappreciative attitudes, emotional manipulation, unrealistic expectations from others and from life, and impulsive and self-destructive behavior. Plus, upon successful completion of their summer duties, each of Cheney's Champions will not only return to you in a robust state but will also receive a very nice Presidential Certificate...
...course the domestic redundancies of my bigamous friend and of polygamous Green are different in spirit, or at least in arrangement. Green - a stern, bearded, and Biblical sort of character - has lived, without duplicity, the life of a robust gnu. This begetting is hard work. The Sultan of Pasha without the silks, he collected all his wives there in the desert, and they share a common life. My friend, by contrast, conducted a symmetrical, binary life covertly - keeping the right hand ignorant of the left hand's adventures. I think, paradoxically, that in his deepest heart, my friend...