The New York Times has a gushing piece on the new tower planned for the site next to the Museum of Modern Art. Though architecture ace Nicolai Ouroussoff takes the museum to task for not developing the entire parcel for their own use, he has high praise for the tower’s design by Jean Nouvel comparing [...]
The New York Times today reports that Picador books is taking a rather direct approach to selling the paperback version of Oprah-snubbing author Jonathan Franzen memoir The Discomfort Zone. Two rather nasty quotes are included in the blurbs — both from the Times itself. Is it that people only register the blurbs as a mass [...]
Talking Heads: “Deadline writer, fa fa fa fa fa…” In his otherwise decent if plodding rundown of conservatism’s ills in, surprise surprise, The New York Times, Paul Krugman goes way off the rails with a hackneyed Talking Heads hijack: “Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: “Well, how did [...]
Muschamp championed Edward Durell Stone’s “Lollipop Building” at 2 Columbus Circle, which has since been radically altered.Herbert Muschamp, Architecture critic for The New York Times, died yesterday of lung cancer. He was a passionate and insightful critic who loved New York deeply. His sometimes florid writing could seem over-the-top for many but his eye for [...]
Justice Thomas: She had a Coke and he ain’t smiling… Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is in the midst of an unprecedented book tour, has taken the opportunity to smear the woman who almost cost him his nomination — both in print and on 60 Minutes . Thomas, who opposes racial preferences unless they [...]
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