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...self-respecting compendium of the reigning avant-garde would be incomplete without Rudolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti (associate professor of architecture at Harvard). They have secured their position as active--and influential--participants in the current architectural (r)evolution by virtue of their academic curricula vitae: impeccable academic credentials and a firm portfolio brimming with exquisite drawings of unrealized projects...
...alluring, often kooky clothes, among them wild, feathered jackets. Today she lets her fantasy run free on extravagant gowns constructed of genuine Tiffany glass beads ($5,000), bomber jackets made of python skins ($2,500), jumpsuits tailored from gold lame ($850). A body-conscious coterie of customers, the sexy avant-garde of fashion, are fanatic followers of Kamali. Raquel Welch is having Kamali design her costumes for her upcoming picture The Swindle, and Disco Goddess Donna Summer wore Kamali on her last tour. Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross are regular customers in Kamali's Beverly Hills Neiman-Marcus boutique...
...angry trucker with a load of wet cement. In South Carolina's Hampton County, everything depends on an antique system in which a child under ten or a blind person sits in court and pulls the names of potential jurors from a metal box. Says Marjorie Avant, a courthouse employee: "No one ever suggested doing it any other...
...inspired showman, Barr masterminded hundreds of exhibitions that rarely failed to create an uproar. The avant-garde sculpture he imported for a 1936 show so bewildered U.S. Customs officials that they refused to recognize it as art and tried to levy heavy duties. His decision to display such objects as an oval wheel and a fur-lined teacup irked the museum's trustees, and one show devoted entirely to an elaborate shoeshine stand crafted by little-known Primitive Artist Joe Milone nearly got him fired. But he also presented landmark shows on surrealism, Dada, Bauhaus architecture, machine design...
...aspect has remained constant: after 233 world premieres, the A.D.F. is still the incubator of the eclectic, divisive energy of the art form, a center of experimentation. In its "Emerging Generation" series, as many avant-garde oddities as real innovations have appeared. Overall the record is commendable: the series gave Twyla Tharp, Laura Dean and Senta Driver a widening public acceptance. Says Festival President Charles Reinhart, 50, who took over the A.D.F. in 1969: "For these kids, this is like a bullfighter appearing in Madrid. It's the big time...