Before leaving, she was gutsy enough to invite him to see her room: an attic corner with a sleek semicircular built-in bar, bar stools, drink tables and -- most radical -- with all of it, even the wainscoting, sheathed in nickel-plated chrome.
But it is the upstairs that suggests the most radical break with tradition.
He has deftly positioned himself as the most radical Islamist with whom it's acceptable to deal.
"They get confused," Mrs Coker said, "and say, 'How can a proper front door lead into a kitchen?' " But it is the upstairs that suggests the most radical break with tradition.
Of course, the most radical experiment with family, compact cameras and film festivals might be director Cory McAbee's film Crazy and Thief, his attempt to capture an honest portrait of those earliest, hazy days of childhood that you quickly forget but remain as primordial memories animating your soul.
Among the most radical, an obsession with land deemed sacred outstripped their respect for the state and its institutions.
But intellectual currents that once radiated from Egypt now just as often flow in the other direction, as scholars and activists in Morocco and Tunisia, perched on the Arab world's periphery and often influenced by the West, export ideas that seek a synthesis of what the most radical Islamists, along with their many critics here and in the West, still deem irreconcilable: faith and democracy.
I'd been in the neighborhood, off and on, for several years, working dumb jobs until I graduated Antioch and moved into a fifth-floor walkup on Twelfth Street, just off Avenue A. I landed a job at Ed Sanders's Peace Eye Bookstore, a few blocks away, and started writing about music for the Rat, the city's most radical underground paper, with offices on Fourteenth Street.
"We condemn (it) in the most radical way together with The Pope and all those who love peace," said Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi in a statement.
A more accurate reading is that he trod a line between Church orthodoxies and the most radical alternatives associated with the mechanical philosophy and early modern ethics, such as we find in Hobbes.
