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...years as dictator, Saddam undid all the progress he had achieved, leading his country into three wars that devastated Iraq's economy and left more than 1 million dead. Hundreds of thousands more died at the hands of his henchmen and security forces. The true measure of his monstrosity, however, was not in any body count but in his subjugation of Iraqi minds. In February 2003, on the eve of the U.S. invasion, I visited a small village on the border with Kuwait. The local elder, known as Abu Mohammed, knew that when the fighting began, his tiny watermelon farm...
...retorts Birkerts. That would explain the journalist’s “obviously bitchy” remarks says the maligned scholar. Marcus quotes a line from Birkerts’ essay, which asks, “Can I possibly convey how those words moved in me, how that cadence undid in a minute’s time whatever prior cadences had been voice-tracking my life?” The critic answers “No...he can’t.” He continues by attacking Birkerts’s phrase “the moment of Shakespearean...
...reprieved. This debate, devoted overwhelmingly to Iraq, was a calamity for the President. Kerry held to two declarations--I really had only one position on Iraq, and I have a plan on how to win it--that went unchallenged by a confused and agitated President. Those 90 minutes undid months of advertising (abetted by Kerry's numberless about-faces) that had portrayed Kerry as inconsistent, cynical, weak and uncertain...
...became a man capable of taking those pictures, Avedon transformed fashion photography. Certainly he knew about elegance. His portrait of Marella Agnelli, with its plain sources in the swan-necked women of 16th century Mannerism, tells you that. But in the pages of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue he undid decades of the simply fashionable. What he offered in place of the chic was cheek. In one giddy series of pictures from 1962, he had Suzy Parker, one of the first supermodels, high-stepping it around Paris with Mike Nichols, a funny young couple on the run, at a time...
...presumes to be handing down, like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once did, the chief forms from which all others are supposed to flow. But with the singular spectacle of his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain--all that glistening titanium, those war-whooping arabesques--Frank Gehry in 1997 undid everyone's idea of what a building looks like. Ever since, his greatest influence has been this: he has profoundly reordered the idea of constructed space among people who don't think about buildings for a living but who work in them, live in them--and pay for them. Because...