- Rich Hein/Sun-Times
- Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano: The details are crucial.
As Mies van der Rohe said, “God is in the details.” But is God in every last petty detail? As Mies might not have said, but just about everybody else has at one time or another, “Picky, picky.”
(What if it is!)
Give me a break! That’s a wonderful lyric. The instant we hear it we know what Hart meant by unphotographable. It’s an old galosh of a word that stretches a little, slips on easily, and makes a snug fit. It suits the song in a way the clinical unphotogenic cannot—not even if a million other words rhymed with it.
At any rate, I read the papers Monday morning and spent most of the day asking myself, “Should I just let it go this time?” By nightfall I’d decided that I have to do what I have to do. Which is to report, with regret, fresh evidence that there has been no reform at the Tribune, and that, moreover, the New York Times has become just about as bad.
