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2001 IN RETROSPECT By Angus Trumble “President George W. Bush was informed that the Saudi Arabian terrorist Osama bin Laden was determined to attack the United States and that plans to hijack aircraft were being made. The president announced that he supported the funding of limited research of embryonic stem cells. When asked what he had in common with British prime minister Tony Blair, the president said, ‘We both use Colgate toothpaste.’” The earthquakes have quieted, the bankruptcies resolved, the rubble cleared. Angus Trumble sifts through the particulars of a difficult 2001: rampant foot-and-mouth disease in England, dying Beatles, and the tumble of a 135-ton space station into the Pacific Ocean. A regular feature. Angus Trumble is Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT. His book, A Brief History of the Smile, was published by Basic Books in 2004. The Finger: A Handbook, will be published later this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This is the fourth year that he has contributed his “Year in Retrospect” column to the magazine.
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Esopus 8 (Spring 2007)
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