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...original sections, however, including Art, Cinema, Education, Music, Religion and Science, still appear under their original headings. These sections have been joined by several successful newcomers. Modern Living, now called Living, began looking at American mores and manners in 1961. Law, which had appeared occasionally in the 1920s and '30s, became a fixture in 1963. Essay made its debut in 1965. Behavior and Environment got their start in 1969, and Sexes in 1973. Since 1978 American Scene has examined numerous intriguing corners of American life. Some other new departments: Video (1981), Design (1981), Computers (1982) and Food...
...clan, young, affluent professionals are partial to particular brands of sneakers (Reebok) and cars (Saab). Recently the group discovered its own mortgage. The 15-year, fixed-rate home loan is favored by married couples in their 30s and 40s who together earn $60,000 or more. Virtually unknown a year ago, this new form of financing now accounts for more than 14% of all loans made by America's largest mortgage bankers...
...minds of a cell of young cartoonists 40 and 50 years ago. Of the six major Warner's directors--Jones, Isadore ("Friz") Freleng, Robert McKimson, Bob Clampett, Fred ("Tex") Avery and Frank Tashlin--the first three spanned virtually the entire life of the shop, from the early or mid-30s until it was closed in 1963. In 1937 Warner's hired Mel Blanc, the man of a thousand funny voices, most of them sounding like a Bronx sharpie with a case of adenoids. And somehow, over the next 25 years, they all kept getting better. "We wrote cartoons for grownups...
Schwitters was one of the first artists to perceive that a culture writes some chapters of its memoirs in waste. But unlike other German avant-gardists of the '20s and '30s, he was not a political artist with party allegiances; he was utterly absorbed in the ideal of autonomous fine art. "Art is too precious to be misused as a tool," he declared. "I prefer to distance myself from contemporary events . . . But I am more deeply rooted in my time than the politicians." After half a century, Schwitters' constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides...
Like the bashful hero of a '30s movie, Captain Testrake humbly gave thanks to anyone and everyone who had kept the hostages in thoughts and prayers. When he finished, there was an awkward moment, as though no one was quite sure what came next. Reagan spontaneously filled in the missing lines. He leaned over to the microphone and said, with a smile and a note of gentle exhortation, "Go home...