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What it produces are places where familiar elements of the urban landscape are digested and sent back to us as sculptural environments. Curved basins recall the empty swimming pools where so much of skateboarding was refined. Slopes hint at the concrete canal embankments where a million kids scuffed their elbows...
Wehbe's hometown of Beirut was, in many ways, a kind of Middle Eastern New York: a vibrant cultural capital where an educated homegrown populace rubbed elbows with a parade of jet-setting foreigners. By contrast, the far more conservative Damascus gives off an Arab-flavored Soviet vibe, from the...
Remember that even Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, though they were published by the most reputable house (Knopf) and wrote popular books that became hit movies, weren't considered the equals of "serious" novelists. They wrote genre fiction. The New Yorker critic (and novelist) Edmund Wilson could find "the boys...
Of course, the prize is not yet Elkann's. Although his decision-making role and public presence have recently begun to swell, Fiat chairman Luca di Montezemolo and CEO Sergio Marchionne are still largely in charge. The Fiat Group, which counts CNH tractors and Iveco trucks among its holdings, has...
Feelings between the two camps, the entertainers and the sport jugglers, can run a little high. ("They all get really crazy about it," says Olga, rolling her eyes. "It's insane.") The entertainers call Garfield a dictator who's crushing the creativity out of juggling. He calls them hippies and...