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...long history of fighting wars on nouns. In the 1930s, F.D.R. fought a war on crime. Lyndon Johnson launched a war on poverty in 1964. In the '70s, Richard Nixon started wars on cancer and, most memorably, on drugs. "The irony is that all of these wars on abstractions have pretty much been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam...
...harder than others. His work influenced legislation in California, and he was consulted on construction projects from Egypt to Alaska. died. al held, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylistic, mural-sized black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres in eye-popping colors. Describing the theme of much of his work, he said, "We're not going to get rid of chaos and complexity...
...could trace the current craze for hippie-chic handbags back to the slouchy style of celebs like Malibu-bound Kate Hudson or in-the-news icons like Sienna Miller. Either way, the must-have accessory for fall is decidedly '70s: beaded, studded or just plain slouchy...
DIED. AL HELD, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylized, mural-size black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres in eye-popping colors. Describing the theme of much of his work, he said, "We're not going to get rid of chaos and complexity ... But we can find a way to live with them...
...very major way, she has changed in terms of her confidence level. When Helen projected the image that used to be in ads back in the '60s and '70s of this really almost haughty-looking sophisticated woman, that was the fantasy in your mind, if you were a Cosmo reader, of how you were going to be. Let's face it: Back then, women weren't making that kind of money. They didn't have the same number of choices. The fact that they were in this position of ruling the world - it looked like they...