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Once upon a time, in the palm-fringed squares of Zanzibar, off Africa's east coast, where Arabs gather each evening to chat over tiny cups of syrupy black coffee, the talk was all of pleasant things, of rich crops of clove and cinnamon, of the fleets of slant...
MAN, a gregarious animal, enjoys a spectacle, and on momentous occasions likes to gather informally with his fellows. To satisfy this urge, densely packed cities have yielded up their most precious commodity-space-to create the great, timeless squares, piazze, places and Plätse. The best and most famous...
Mondrian & the Squares
In war, it is not only the lucky who live. Some men, without being cowards, display an extraordinary knack for survival. Such a one is Gunner Herbert Asch, the fictional Wehrmacht veteran who for six years of World War II managed to escape the enemy's bullets and the...
LONG before the camera made possible the snapshot in the wallet, a man who cared to. carry about the likeness of his wife or children had to commission an artist. The demand for such likenesses, to hang on watch fobs or dangle in gold lockets, fostered the exacting art of...