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...lived with Asian influence all my life," says Eugene Kupper, an architect and UCLA professor, but "today Japan is in the forefront. It's the most exciting it has ever been." While tradition clearly informs some of the best new Japanese design, the current creative burst is not primarily backward looking. Indeed, Japanese design seems singularly, giddily unfettered. Not only are architects and art directors in their 40s and 50s free from the obligation to pay homage to traditional forms, they have also escaped for the first time in this century from the overwhelming gravitational pull of Western domination. They...
...bounces around delightedly, and comes to prideful attention when his picture is taken. Another kind of athletic accomplishment is that of George Kelsey of New Jersey, who cannot push with his arms and so maneuvers his wheelchair by reversing it and shoving it along backward, with his left toe, through the 30-meter slalom course. His face is twisted with effort, but he too is laughing with joy as he finishes...
Gorbachev needs a respite from all-out competition with the West in order to get on with his program. He wants to transform the Soviet Union from a muscle- bound but backward empire into a modern state able to hold its own in the global marketplace of goods and ideas. The U.S.S.R., says Gorbachev, must become a "real superpower." Implicit in that phrase is a stunning confession: take away its 3.7 million men under arms and its 25,000-odd nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union would be a Third World country. There is a note of alarm, even shame...
Long used to icy adversaries in the Kremlin, Americans must now confront a vigorous and imaginative Soviet leader. He is bent on transforming his muscle- bound but backward empire into a modern state able to hold its own in the global marketplace of goods and ideas. There is reason to wish him well, but also reason for skepticism. See WORLD...
...more than a year, Tess Follensbee had found it easier to start moving her rigid muscles if she walked backward, so pronounced was her Parkinson's disease. In May, all that changed. The 39-year-old mother of four was one of the first half a dozen Americans to undergo experimental brain surgery for Parkinson's at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Last week some 500 medical researchers, gathered at a symposium sponsored by the University of Rochester in New York, watched a videotape of Follensbee in awed silence as she triumphantly, if tentatively, propelled herself forward. Says...