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In a chilling postscript to the affair, it turned out that the would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer, was stalking not only Governor George Wallace. Authorities learned soon after the shooting that in early April Bremer had registered at New York's Waldorf-Astoria at the same time Hubert Humphrey...
In power, Nkrumah's big obsession was the Pan-African movement, a doomed design to unite Black Africa to fight the white settlers of South Africa, Mozambique and Rhodesia. At home, Nkrumah built roads, schools, clinics and a $200 million hydroelectric dam-a frenzy of spending that brought his...
The commercial is really just a peculiar twist to Madison Avenue's increasingly tiresome obsession with nostalgia. Ole Bob, now 54, actually opens with his patented "Say, kids" routine, which is followed by a memory-jangling jingle, "It's Riunite time, it's Riunite wine . . ." Then Buffalo...
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...
The duke had an obsession with jewelry and opulent metalwork, and so one might expect all his court art to follow a pattern like that of the Limbourg brothers, who made him what must be the most famous set of miniatures in history-the Très Riches Heures du...