July 3, 2006
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Culture War
The New York Times, August 6, 2003,
on its executive editor Bill Keller:“‘It is past time for our magnificent coverage of culture
and lifestyles, so
essential to our present allure and to our future growth, to
get the kind of attention we routinely bestow on hard news,’ Mr. Keller
wrote in
an e-mail message to the staff.”The
New York Times, June
25, 2006,
on art in Mexico:“At
the Hilario Galguera gallery,
newly opened in a fortresslike, century-old building, was Damien
Hirst’s gory new series ‘The Death of God– Towards a Better
Understanding of Life Without God Aboard the Ship of Fools.’ He
conceived the work at his part-time home in the Mexican surf town
Troncones.”Raymond Chandler in The Big Sleep:
“I went over to a floor lamp and pulled the switch, went back to put
off the ceiling light, and went across the room again to the chessboard
on a card table under the lamp. There was a problem laid out on the
board, a six-mover. I couldn’t solve it, like a lot of my
problems. I reached down and moved a knight, then pulled my hat
and coat off and threw them somewhere. All this time the soft
giggling went on from the bed, that sound that made me think of rats
behind a wainscoting in an old house.…………I looked down at the chessboard. The
move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved
it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn’t a
game for knights.”
