By day, Structuralists constructed the structure of meaning and pondered the meaning of structure. By night, Deconstructivists pul...led the cortical edifice down. And the next day the Structuralists started in again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies high...er and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects... gave him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre, and miles of new boulevards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of f...reedom from religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure w...e don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Las Vegas has become, just as Bugsy Siegel dreamed, the American Monte Carlo--without any of the inevitable upper-class baggage of... the Riviera casinos. At Monte Carlo there is still the plush mustiness of the nineteenth century noble lions.... There are still Wrong Forks, Deficient Accents, Poor Tailoring, Gauche Displays, Nouveau Richness, Cultural Aridity--concepts unknown in Las Vegas. For the grand debut of Monte Carlo as a resort in 1879 the architect Charles Garnier designed an opera house for the Place du Casino; and Sarah Bernhardt read a symbolic poem. For the debut of Las Vegas as a resort in 1946 Bugsy Siegel hired Abbot and Costello, and there, in a way, you have it all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions--Politics, like Rock, Pop..., and Camp, has its uses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On Wall Street he and a few others--how many?--three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?--had become precisely that ... Masters o...f the Universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »