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...museum faced stark neighborhood opposition from the get-go—at one early meeting, a neighbor stood up and told the University, “If you build it, we’re going to bomb it,” according to Riverside activist Cob Carlson...
...story of Hong Kong: its murky past, its riotous rise, its uncertain present. Lanchester paints an exquisitely detailed picture of the city the Chinese call hueng gong, or fragrant harbor. But this landscape?devoid of human emotion?is oddly empty, much like his maps, which are clean and stark, with just a smattering of well-known buildings. Fragrant Harbour wants to be an intimate epic, but it's too rushed to be epic, too reticent to be intimate...
...Kopperud is a philosophy student turned war reporter, and he brings those disparate experiences to bear on a novel that swings between metaphysics and the stark facts of violence. The journalist and the freedom fighter alternate in narrating their story, though as the book progresses their voices blur, even as their relationship decays. The absence of names or a clear chronology can confuse the reader, but man's sense of displacement is one of Kopperud's central themes. A Buddhist monk spells it out for the journalist: "Everything and everyone that comes together must sooner or later be parted...
...Behind series, The Remnant. It was true when the first prophecies of the End appeared in the Hebrew Bible in response to a great national catastrophe in 586 B.C. And it was true in between, when an Irish preacher changed the course of American religious thought by bringing a stark apocalyptic vision to a nation that was reeling from the Civil War, its own fratricidal foretaste of Armageddon...
...tourists on wildlife-observation flights, developed a love for the vertical perspective. "People seeing the exhibition can see that, from a bird's-eye view, the world is a beautiful place," he says. "Close up, it is clear there are serious problems - and these are powerfully illustrated by the stark facts and statistics presented. Together they show why we should be concerned about the state of the world." He adds: "A photograph is so strong. Not everyone is going to think like me, but I speak with my photographs. It's easier that way. It's the earth itself that...