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Mounting a Holocaust exhibit that was distinctive from others around the world took some imagination. An eight-story Tower of Witness will be embedded with hundreds of photos found in death camps. Just as striking is the re- creation of a concentration camp. It begins with a tactile shock: the museum's soft carpeting suddenly gives way to rough concrete. The smells and shadings of stone and steel fill the room. To continue, visitors must choose between passageways labeled ABLE BODIED or CHILDREN AND OTHERS. They have been told the second door meant death for boys and girls...
...Pacific Northwest pumping out chords that sound so often like unacknowledged devotionals to the Rolling Stones. All those rancid rock memoirs (the most recent by Angela Bowie) detailing decadences of years past -- sometimes decades past -- that grow drearier with each retelling, antique outrages that have lost the power to shock. Longevity in rock is an elusive thing, and predictability is one sure way to short-circuit it; academic respectability is another...
READERS ACCUSTOMED TO THE ARTFUL BLEND of whimsy and genteel humor in the New Yorker for 68 years are in for a shock. This week's cover features a painting of a Hasidic man and a black woman engaged in a loving kiss. New Yorker art editor Lee Lorenz and editor Tina Brown, four months on the job since she arrived from sassy Vanity Fair, faced intense opposition to the cover from the magazine's senior staff. Several objected to the painting -- not for its blunt representation of interracial harmony but in the "fear that we were being glib about...
...think that the general was guilty of something close to insubordination. In a meeting with Clinton after the election, Powell repeated his personal objection to lifting the ban. But the President-elect left the meeting believing that the general would not stand in his way. It came as a shock when Powell went public with his opposition during a Jan. 12 speech at the U.S. Naval Academy. "Colin really torpedoed our strategy," says a White House aide. "What you see with Powell is not always what...
What I forgot, in my brief shock of discovery, was that I'd never been a big fan of the color before. It wasn't that I was a tomboy--I was too wimpy for that. And it's not that I didn't do my share of pink activities, playing with Barbie dolls and with pink games like Candyland...