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In these vast halls, where the galleries have no exit but only give way to more ramps, staircases and stone voids, a fearful obsession is at work - the experience of enclosure, of invisible watchers. Space, in the rest of Piranesi's work, is (for all its exaggerations) measurable. In...
Sometimes a face will swim up out of the gloom, pale, frightening and familiar--a star--and you are turned to stone before your own image. The jolt of recognition; it is not for him, but for that self of yours that he has incarnated, that large other you that...
It's relief, then, to enter one of the sound stages, to slide open a heavy iron door and step into cool darkness. The gloom is thick, palpable, and you are aware of vast spaces above you. Gradually, as you become accustomed to the artificial dusk, it takes form. Cables...
Certainly the White House staff was only too happy to agree with Chinese wishes to withhold information on all top-level discussions. After the first Nixon-Mao meeting, Ziegler would not even pinpoint the location of Mao's home in Peking, or describe the refreshments. "Absurd," growled the New...
As the birthday boy appeared on the crowded veranda of his house in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 38-man choir burst into Ralph Vaughan Williams' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Famous Man Pablo Casals, cellist, composer, humanitarian, was celebrating his 95th birthday, surrounded by hordes of friends...