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...Seeing the early Python work back in the 70s was a liberating experience for American comedy connoisseurs. Part of the kick was that Flying Circus wasn't made for us. Unlike the Beatles' music, it wasn't meant to sound like our stuff. Either the Pythons never thought to appeal abroad or they just didn't care; they were writing and performing for themselves. The show, with its sly mix of highbrow and no-brow humor, of university wit and pratfalling physicality, must have seemed strange enough to U.K. viewers. But for Americans there were extra layers of mystification...
...their prime - which extends from the debut of Flying Circus through Life of Brian 10 years later - the Pythons were lauded as doing for comedy in the '70s what the Beatles did for pop music in the '60s. They extended Britain's primacy of Cool through a decade that, in other respects, was pretty bleak. Not that a Silly Walk through Harrod's could lessen the likelihood of an IRA bomb, or a thought of the Parrot sketch could warm a body through a winter rendered heatless by the oil embargo. But the Pythons lightened the load. Whatever the real...
It’s refreshing to have architecture back on the front burner at Harvard. The last building glut on campus ended in the early 70s. At that time, Cambridge was widely considered one of the most daring design centers in the U.S. Iconic buildings such as Sert’s Peabody Terrace and Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center rose up in parallel with Harvard’s postwar intellectual boom. Harvard became an architectural rebel, dipping in to new experimental styles and unfamiliar designs in their sprawl across Cambridge...
...DIED. Oriana Fallaci, 77, fearsome, glamorous Italian journalist renowned during the 1960s and '70s for her war reporting and aggressive interviews with world leaders like Yasser Arafat, Golda Meir and Ayatullah Khomeini, whom she famously asked, "How do you swim in a chador?"; in Florence. Of her passion for covering combat, Fallaci said, "Nothing reveals man the way war does." In recent years, she drew accusations of racism for referring to an "Islamic invasion" of Europe...
DIED.Oriana Fallaci, 77, fearsome, glamorous Italian journalist renowned during the 1960s and '70s for her war reporting and aggressive, revealing interviews with world leaders like Yasser Arafat, Golda Meir and Ayatullah Khomeini, whom she famously asked, "How do you swim in a chador?"; in Florence. Of her passion for covering combat, Fallaci said, "Nothing reveals man the way war does." In recent years, she drew accusations of racism for referring to an "Islamic invasion" of Europe and declaring that "sons of Allah breed like rats...