Quoted: In a 2003 interview, when asked the softball question “How are you?” he answered: “I’m mad about being old, and I’m mad about being American. Apart from that, O.K.”

I love this site! So many pictures, videos, documents, interviews, and other resources on a very interesting living arrangement in Russia.

Quoted: This Web site explores and explains a striking social phenomenon: the Soviet "kommunalka," or communal apartment. Instituted after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the kommunalka ...

Quoted: Illich has been called the intellectual father of Web 2.0 and Wikipedia. In 1971 Illich imagined a world where people learned mostly from each other rather than from experts and where information would be available everywhere anytime—in railway stations, factories, cafes, hospitals everywhere.

Quoted: More aspects of Rimbaud are known than can be assimilated: his vastly various, influential and innovative poetry itself; his expressive letters; his scornful and unhesitating permanent abandonment of poetry at the age of 20; the anecdotes of his contemporaries showing him as a drunken, filthy, amoral homosexualteenager who becomes a reserved, hard-working, responsible and respectable (if misanthropic and disgust-ridden) adult merchant and explorer. One would have to be a genius oneself to grasp the full significance of Arthur Rimbaud, or at least have the ability to hold many opposed ideas in one’s mind at the same time and still function fully. Numerous writers have sought to demonstrate their qualifications along these lines by publishing studies of him.

I've only seen one of his movies, but it was so good (The Freshman, 1925). It's incredible how he can communicate so brilliantly without speaking.

Quoted: Elizabeth tried to adopt and adhere to many of her father's public policies. Unlike some of her predecessors, she preferred to appoint Russians and not foreigners to the highest positions in the country and being a patron of the arts and sciences, she established the Russian Academy of Arts. As well as a conscientious leader, Elizabeth was also a very lively and social personality and organised regular balls, receptions, masquerades and firework displays.

Quoted: "In 1984, after an absence of twelve years, I returned to the Lower West Side of Buffalo, NY to rephotograph the individuals and families who continued to live in that area. Then, eight years later, after overcoming heart surgery and cancer treatment, I again returned to the Lower West Side to complete a series of Triptychs. The photographs in this series document the lives of the people over a 20 year span." Milton Rogovin

Quoted: Included in this series are photos taken both indoors or outside the homes. There are photographs of changes of homes and storefronts over time as well. Milton and Anne were able to reconnect with 60 families.

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Quoted: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right1965 Don't Look Back outtake