“... that it seemed to some when the action was in the streets to Prague or at the Berlin Wall,’ New York Times reporter R.W. Apple wrote during the Gulf War; ‘Is making a superior Walkman a better index of technological sophistication than making laser bombs that enter through the front door?’ asked Charles Krauthammer, for whom the Gulf War refuted the ...”

“... number of books on the visual arts, and is clearly an informed and sympathetic viewer. The New York Review of Books ran a small ad asking anyone who had cried in front of paintings to write to Elkins; he collected the responses (some of which appear in an appendix to the present book) and began reflecting on his own history of responding to art. He admits ...”

“... of the 2015 general election that would remain ‘utterly private’; the former Tory treasurer Peter Cruddas telling undercover reporters from the Sunday Times in 2012 that a donation of £200,000 could secure what he called ‘premier league’ access to David Cameron and George Osborne.But the Channel 4 investigation, carried out by journalists from the ...”

“... copies of the film were enclosed as an advertising supplement in 74 newspapers, including the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. ‘The threat of Radical Islam is the most important issue facing us today,’ the sleeve announces. ‘It’s our responsibility to ensure we can make an informed vote in November.’ The Clarion Fund, the ...”

“... had it made forty times, in different fabrics: white for the Miami summer and black for the New York winter and grey for inbetween times. It is softly toga-like; you pull it over your head. She specially likes the way it frames her face. (The man who designed it lives in a trailer in upstate New York and is in a dispute ...”

“... book-length Testimony the most elusive long poem of modernism. He is remembered as a kind of New York saint, an urban Emily Dickinson: the unknown poet, walking the city streets, writing intense, seemingly matter-of-fact lyrics about things he saw and heard. And then, in the last decades of his life, devoting himself to two obsessional projects: the more ...”

“... progression.The Chamberlains, who live in Washington Square West, are recent transplants from New York City. Peter, a fortysomething local news anchor and Alix, a 33-year-old writer and Instagram influencer, are parents to Catherine, a newborn, and Briar, an inquisitive three-year-old. Their mother pretends she is still ...”

“... work responded to, it is to the sculpture that one must eventually turn. Epstein was born in New York in 1880. Something of a prodigy, a natural draughtsman whose talents did not go unrecognised, he was supported by an American patron after breaking with his family, who weren’t interested in his becoming an artist. He arrived in England in 1905 from ...”

“... America. That is slightly harsh. A man like Walter Cook, of the New York University Institute of Fine Art, who found chairs for many eminent exiles and quipped, ‘Hitler shakes the tree and I collect the apples’, was hardly a hick. Nor could the Cambridge or LSE of this period be considered provincial, however tenuous their ...”

“... in advertising and marketing, had worked for Western firms, spent time in London and New York, spoke English. This was the new, desperately Western Russia unhampered by the past, and these were the channels I was meant to focus on. The vogue everywhere was for non-scripted, reality-based television – The Apprentice, Next Top Model, Big ...”

“... expand into a firm of architect-engineers of a size never seen before. SOM’s Lever House in New York – the ‘earliest of the “Miesian” office towers to blunt the Manhattan skyline’, as Saint sees it – was a precocious expression of a new city vernacular of exposed frame and curtain wall. Lever House is one of a string of examples, from Vauban’s ...”

“... the relationship between Irish and black becomes strictly and uncompromisingly a struggle. In New York, these tensions are deeply rooted. In the 1830s, when the Irish took over Tammany Hall, one of the most keenly debated policy battles was over the abolition of slavery. Daniel O’Connell told his fellow countrymen in America that slavery was a ‘foul blot ...”

“... bits of the ‘brilliantly flawed lifetimes’, as he puts it, of the dreadful Duke and Duchess. Peter Watson’s Sotheby’s: Inside Story is also related to a television programme – one that appeared the year before, in 1997. Here the auction house was accused of conniving in the sale of illegally excavated and exported antiquities and of organising the ...”

“... praying; he’s playing the piano. Or, rather, he is doing both. Garner is on stage at the New York Jazz Festival on Randalls Island, but he’s also preaching, bearing witness, testifying.Garner was barely 5’2"; while performing, he propped himself up on multiple telephone directories. But he had a grand, orchestral style, steeped in both Harlem stride ...”

“... to the second volume of their Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker point out that the nine-year run of the Dial alone amounts to ‘around 10,500 pages of text and 1200 pages of adverts, assuming an average of 300 words per page; this equals some 3.1 million words to read … about equivalent to ...”