February 24, 2004
Domination through Fear
I remember filmstrips from middle school. I wonder if our president does?
From “The Popularity Parade,” A Guidance Release, produced by Popular Science Audio-Visuals, Inc.
Image from the A/V Geeks Educational Film Archive.
February 12, 2004
He Lied (A Work in Progress)
He lied, lied, lied, lied, lied, and lied. He lied. Even way back then, he lied.
His right-hand man lied, lied, lied, and lied, and lied, lied, lied.
I’ve typed “lied” so many times now, I no longer recognize the word. Can we get a spellchecker in here?
February 03, 2004
The World Trade Center (from the archives)
Lately I’ve been reading up on the history of the World Trade Center. It’s easy to forget, in this post-9/11 world, that for most of their life the Twin Towers were reviled. One of the most prominent critics was Wolf Von Eckardt, the Washington Post’s eminent architectural critic. Upon seeing Minoru Yamasaki’s model for the buildings in 1966, Von Eckardt called the World Trade Center a “fearful instrument of urbicide.” Its two towers, he wrote, “just stand there, artless and dumb, without any relationship to anything, not even to each other.”
Von Eckardt calls the scale of the Twin Towers “utterly inhuman.” Maybe that’s why they eventually gained acceptance—if not from the architectural community, then at least from the popular media. What else could King Kong climb, except for something that was utterly inhuman?
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