Yet in 1923, when Steichen effectively defected from the art world for a lucrative magazine and advertising career (he would later burn all his painted canvases), the idea of merging art and commerce was sacrilege.

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Met with both cries of sacrilege and acknowledgements that it actually looked pretty cool, this FPS, being developed by 2K Marin, has been pushed back to 2013, leaving Firaxis, the studio behind Civilization, a clear run with their more faithful remake of the strategy game.

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His installations include a recreation of a 1984 confrontation between police and striking miners and an inflatable model of Stonehenge entitled Sacrilege.

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Bush's views were nothing short of sacrilege not only for the Arabs and the Europeans, but for Washington's foreign policy establishment, headquartered at the State Department and the CIA. For the men and women of these bureaucracies, Bush's recognition that the Arab regimes they championed were the primary source of regional instability and anti-Americanism was a repudiation of everything they worked for.

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And then the presen- tation is treated as if it were the Gospel and to change one word of it would be a sacrilege.

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Judging by the polls, pundits and prognostications on the issue, few seem to be taking Kobe's sacrilege seriously.

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It's probably sacrilege these days to say anything positive about decisions made privately in smoke-filled rooms (and the Blackstone is a no-smoking-anywhere-on-the-premises hotel today, anyway).

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