From the daily archives:

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Joseph Beuy’s Hat

May 18, 2004

John Levett on the Viv Westwood retrospective…

There’s a telling quote early on: I didn’t know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world. This was around 1957 when she spent a term at Harrow Art College. The quote is telling because it neatly sums up Britain in the 50s, class-bound (& don’t let anyone tell you it isn’t any more), Empire-hanging-on, still hanging the war around its neck like a talisman (& that still hasn’t gone away). As for working in fashion, well your mum might have worked in a cotton mill & your dad might be a shoemaker, but that was as close to fashion as you got.

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Trifecta!

May 18, 2004

According to the UPI, “Over the past weekend and into this week, devastating new allegations have emerged putting Stephen Cambone, the first Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, firmly in the crosshairs and bringing a new wave of allegations cascading down on the head of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, when he scarcely had time to catch his breath from the previous ones.

Even worse for Rumsfeld and his coterie of neo-conservative true believers who have run the Pentagon for the past 3½ years, three major institutions in the Washington power structure have decided that after almost a full presidential term of being treated with contempt and abuse by them, it’s payback time.

Those three institutions are: The United States Army, the Central Intelligence Agency and the old, relatively moderate but highly experienced Republican leadership in the United States Senate.

(Linkage and emphasis mine)

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