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THEATER: West Germany in the '70s is betrayed by Democracy...
Brady Keys Jr. has always been a playmaker--on and off the field. In 1964, when he was a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he ran a punt back 90 yds., a play that's still a team record. In the '70s, as the owner of several franchises, he was an African-American pioneer in the fast-food industry, and his policy of custom-making orders inspired Burger King's famous "Have It Your Way" campaign. Now the former football star is tackling his most difficult challenge yet: failing inner-city schools...
Flat shoes may have made a big comeback on fashion runways in the spring, but stiletto lovers could not have predicted the return of that '70s staple, Earth Shoes. Celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow, Taye Diggs and Pierce Brosnan are snapping up styles such as the Vegan Mirage, right, for their comfort (the heels are slightly lower than the toes to promote a more natural posture). After a 20-year absence from the market, the shoes, originally developed by a Danish yoga master, are definitely making an impression...
...Epileptic, a moving account of his brother's debilitating illness, he delivers compelling cartoon metaphors for elusive concepts like longing. The result, due out in early January, is a graphic novel that's a worthy successor to Art Spiegelman's Maus.Set in Europe during the late 1960s and early '70s, Epileptic tells the story of David B.'s family members as they struggle to help his brother, trying out "cures" from mediums to exorcisms. A seizure is depicted as his brother twisting in the coils of a giant snake. David B. says, "I didn't want...
...construct the shells from prefabricated segments of the one sphere, so they could be self-supporting. Utzon had just standardized his plywood interiors, which were to be "assembled like a big jigsaw puzzle in space," when his relationship with the N.S.W. government broke down and he resigned. During the '70s, Utzon would go on to perfect his "additive architecture" with the box-like Bagsvaerd Church and the modular Kuwait National Assembly, though in recent years his design has become sparer. A building should be left "to be what it wants to be," he has said, echoing the words of American...