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...control system for the Chrysler 300M, and a keyless entry system for the BMW models that also lets individual family members program their own sound, seating and climate-control preferences. (The claim in Detroit is that today's autos pack more computer power than moon rockets did in the 1960s...
Although some politicians still find it worth their while to campaign against the 1960s, there's a sad silence now from the other end of the line. John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, Janis, Jimi...where is everybody? Even the sassiest of them all has fallen publicly silent, which makes it a pleasure to pick up his voice again, or at least its echo, in David Remnick's haunting new book, King of the World: The Rise of Muhammad Ali (Random House; 336 pages...
...Petrossian. No detail has escaped Wynn's notice. "New hotels are always a blessing and a curse, but if well done, they stimulate the public's interest in Vegas," says Wynn, CEO of Mirage Resorts, Inc., and the son of a gambler who came to Las Vegas in the 1960s. The biggest stimulus at the Bellagio, of course, is Wynn's $300 million collection of works by, among others, Miro, Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Modigliani, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Pollock, de Kooning and Jasper Johns, and sculptures by Giacometti and Brancusi...
...Smith, who died more than three decades ago. It was Serra, with his ability to involve the human body as a participant in his work--demanding something more from a spectator than the sole act of looking, and yet harshly rewarding the eye as well--who began in the 1960s to rescue sculpture from the dematerializing effects of Minimalism. His work has always demanded reaction. In the past it has occasionally got more than it bargained for: Tilted Arc, 1981, a 120-ft. steel wall running across Federal Plaza in New York City, was taken down after its intrusiveness provoked...
...trace of the idealistic spirit that fueled the hippie music scene of the 1960s has survived into the skeptical '90s, one place to look for it might be southern Vermont, a region that has produced millionaire ice-cream philanthropists Ben and Jerry, a socialist mayor and, most interesting, the rock band Phish. Launched by guitarist Trey Anastasio and three buddies in a University of Vermont dorm room in 1983, Phish has built a hugely successful career as an underground band around the quaint notion that music can be used for building a sense of community, not just making money...