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...plethora of dreams flowed from America in the 1920s and '30s; and though, at least on the face of it, we have ceased to share them, they lend a deep and sometimes rather scary poignancy to the remarkable exhibition organized by Art Historians Richard Guy Wilson and Dianne H. Pilgrim, titled "The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941." The show will run until Feb. 16 at the Brooklyn Museum and travel to Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Atlanta through...
...theater of the absurd (he prefers the term "theater of derision"), Ionesco reviews the influence of surrealists and dadaists without missing the historical joke: "They all wanted to destroy culture . . . and now they're part of our heritage." Arthur Koestler, a leading intellectual and novelist of the '30s and '40s, sounds weary and detached. "I'm vice president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society," says the author of Darkness at Noon. The following year, he and his wife Cynthia would carry out a joint suicide pact at their London residence...
...GOVERNMENT CLOSED down opposition newspapers. Citizens were persecuted on religious grounds. Anyone who initiated contacts with members of organizations not approved by the government would be sent to prison. These are not the '30s in Western Europe, these are the '80s. And all of this is happening in Israel...
...Food and Drug Administration gave the nod, more than 300,000 people have indulged themselves with collagen shots. Enthusiasts range from society matrons to aging baby-boomer executives to fitness freaks who are intent on looking their best. "Most people who have the treatments are in their late 30s to 50s and are still very active," says Dr. Henry Roenigk, chairman of dermatology at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "People used to accept aging, but today they just don't want to look old. The fact is, however, collagen doesn't last forever...
...lines, and they were not part of how I felt I should look," said Marilyn Tschida, 44, owner of a picture-framing store in West Palm Beach, Fla., who had frown lines filled out last month. Mary Nielsen, an Oakland sales representative who says she is in her late 30s, decided to ease her laugh lines when "people started calling me 'Ma'am' instead of 'Miss.' " Michael Epstein, 32, who runs eight miles a day and plays tennis twice a week, paid $800 for initial treatments in July. "I always had the feeling that I'd be willing...