Word: 20s
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...millennium has barely begun, and Gen Xers are already trying to turn back the clock. Weary of staring at computer screens all day and bored with the monochrome sweater sets at Banana Republic, they have turned to an old craft for satisfaction. Four million people, mostly women in their 20s and 30s, began knitting last year alone, according to the Craft Yarn Council of America. A recent "Knit Out" in New York drew 7,000 people to check out the latest in fashions and supplies, more than double the previous year. Hundreds of websites, such as eknitting.com offer lessons, patterns...
Mark Morris' latest New York City premiere, now being performed on tour, is irresistibly zany--and very, very smart. Set to Ethan Iverson's delectably decorous salon-style arrangements of '20s pop songs, Dancing Honeymoon consists of 15 Chaplinesque vignettes through which Morris and his six yellow-clad dancers hurtle at breakneck speed. Like all great farces, this one is precisely calculated down to the last pratfall; even when the props start flying through the air, everything goes wrong right on time. Keep an eye on Julie Worden, who dances like a Thoroughbred filly and makes faces like Lucille Ball...
DIED. SAM JAFFE, 98, pioneering agent and producer in Hollywood's Golden Age; in Los Angeles. A movie mogul by his mid-20s, Jaffe opened his own talent agency in 1935 and soon had a stable of stars that included Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Richard Burton...
Phillips wasn't a Modernist missionary like Alfred Stieglitz. He came to things gradually and took his time, feeling no embarrassment about changing his mind: to do so was a sign of authentic judgment. He was still in his 20s when he began writing art criticism, and his first reaction to "radical" Modernism, which hit him in the 1913 Armory Show, was one of utter horror--Cezanne and Van Gogh were "unbalanced fanatics," Cubism "simply ridiculous," Matisse "insanely, repulsively depraved...