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...show's detail-crammed signs and labels. "It's like a magazine article exhibit-ized." And, like any good magazine article, it has not just a beginning and middle, but also an end. One of the last things you see is a 1932 replica of a never-built luxury liner by Norman Bel Geddes, who - along with the likes of Gilbert Rohde and Donald Deskey - formed a rising group of distinctively American designers. Bel Geddes' model is the same size as the Normandie at the show's entrance, but sleeker and more futuristic - a metaphor for the passing of cultural...
Chances are you can't name a single central banker from the 1920s, but in their day, they were quite the celebrities, even giving false names when traveling by ocean liner in order to dodge the press. These were the men who - in the wake of WW I and the economic destruction it wrought - returned the world to the gold standard, used interest rates to bolster the value of currencies and let stock speculation run rampant. In short, they helped lay the groundwork for the Great Depression. In Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, investment manager Liaquat...
...government is committed to freeing up discretionary spending. Earlier this year, Beijing vowed to double the size of the national social security fund, to $147 billion by 2010, and to steadily increase it from there. "This," says CASS economist Wang, "is like turning around an ocean liner. But at least we've started to turn...
...outsider” music in the 20th century. His second album, 1967’s “The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death,” is a miracle of acoustic innovation, showcasing peculiar compositions and idiosyncratic arrangements. That album’s bizarre, esoteric liner notes became one of Fahey’s many trademarks. It was Fahey who, in effect, discovered Kottke, when the latter mailed his demo recordings to Fahey’s nascent label, Takoma Records; to this day, Kottke’s debut remains Takoma’s best-selling record. While Kottke...
...enough people look into the provenance of these compilations, and thus, are missing out on some great stuff.Take the DFA Radio Mixes as an example. Started in 2005 by DFA Records, the first discs in the series were crafted by label co-founder James Murphy, and, according to the liner notes, were “recorded at home in Brooklyn.” While those same notes later reveal that the discs were also intended to be spun on BBC 1, most of the albums in the seasonally released serial are well worth the download (and they?...