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The book admiringly traces the evolution of these irrepressible democratic impulses, but they become less important when set beside the city's magnificently mixed-up architecture, an aggregate of different periods and styles. Architecture is the second of Barcelona's most enduring features after democracy, and fittingly enough, Hughes treats...
The supportive network of relatives and friends was typical of Arkansas clannishness. The state's white population is homogeneous and inbred. The base of its stable demographics was an influx of native-born Protestants from nearby states in the 19th century. It still has few foreign-born citizens -- or Jews...
The founder of Time, Henry Luce, would snort at the notion that his company should provide a value-free forum for the exchange of ideas. In Luce's system, editors were supposed to make value judgments and promote the truth as they saw it. Time has moved far from its...
Without aiding Jesse Helms, might one advise performance artists that there are worthier topics than graphic details of sexual awakening? David Drake's THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME comes from a radicalized gay who is too busy satirizing cruising in bars and gyms to define the thinking that shaped...
What Newhouse has been unhappy about lately is the New Yorker magazine, which he bought for $168 million in 1985. In 1987 he touched off a staff insurrection when he ousted William Shawn, the 79-year-old icon who had ruled the legendary magazine for 35 years, to bring in...