Beauty and Sadness Beauty and Sadness
A tidal wave is coming. Soon I am sure. It will sweep all of us away. --The opening lines of Eureka One of the more familiar works of Japane...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
Sub-Urban Planning Sub-Urban Planning
Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes--once the nation's largest public housing project--is currently being dismantled. Half of its buildings have already been torn down, and of those tha...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Adele Oltman
Re-education on Henry Adams Re-education on Henry Adams
Henry Adams liked to say that his pedigree and eighteenth-century upbringing had hobbled him in the races of the twentieth century. The scion of not just one but two Presidents of...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Michele Pridmore-Brown
‘The Sound of Surprise’ ‘The Sound of Surprise’
Bright and eager, bouncy and buoyant, sharp-eyed and quick-eared and passionately in love--those are a few of the ways you could describe Calle 54, director Fernando Trueba's trib...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
In the Bosom of Jesus In the Bosom of Jesus
The almost exact coincidence in time between the destruction of the Buddha figures by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's renewed jihad against the Brooklyn Mu...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Suffer the Children Suffer the Children
In 1995 the brutal slaying of Elisa Izquierdo by her crack-addicted mother seized headlines. Responding to the public's outrage that city officials had ignored obvious signs that ...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Daphne Eviatar
The Marriage of Orpheus The Marriage of Orpheus
Something brushed my cheek with damp-- a leaf, its little valley slick with run-off after rain. One last drop shook loose and struck a spider web, which shuddered but held o...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Debora Greger
Literature’s Candida Literature’s Candida
One recent Tuesday, members of the literary old guard gathered at the Church of All Souls on Manhattan's Upper East Side to bid final farewell to one of their secret society and t...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon
Indecent Proposals Indecent Proposals
When the guy I'm seeing, Dan, invited me to the Wayne Wang film The Center of the World I felt sure it would lead to a hot night. The movie poster featured a stripper licking a lo...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Amy Sohn
Ripley, Believe It or Not Ripley, Believe It or Not
Tim Appelo reviews the film With a Friend Like Harry.
May 3, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo