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...idea for the guide came to David Borgenicht, 31, a Philadelphia writer, as he lay awake one night pondering exactly how to go about landing a pilotless plane. (Such conundrums plague Borgenicht. One of his earlier works is The Little Book of Stupid Questions.) He went looking for a partner in neurosis and found Joshua Piven, 28. The two have much in common: both are Philadelphians who went to the University of Pennsylvania, and both survived a formative experience with crime. A decade ago, shortly after moving from Utah to Philadelphia, the amiable Borgenicht was conned...
...Borgenicht and Piven consulted hundreds of experts, among them demolition-derby drivers, wilderness survivalists and emergency medics, to come up with accurate solutions to the 40 scenarios in the book. While they enjoyed exploring their inner MacGyvers, they don't plan to test-run their material. "You might survive but end up with some kind of disfiguring injury," says Borgenicht. For example, the manual carefully lays out the best procedure for jumping from a building into a Dumpster before noting, under "Be Aware," that "the Dumpster may be filled with bricks or other unfriendly materials." In the chapter describing...
Howe has written a rich and beautiful story of the process of acculturation in America. He has immortalized "obscure men" like Louis Borgenicht who became wealthy by working his way up in the clothing industry but who ended his life "not quite comfortable in any world, visibly a success but uncertain where to register its impact, a stranger, perhaps, even to himself," But even though the characters and emotions are all there, Howe may have written the wrong script...
LEONARD BASKIN-Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. More of his men, birds and birdmen, but if Raskin's themes remain unchanged, his treatment is always fresh. Few artists break up space so imaginatively, or trap the animal lurking in humans with more cunning. Some of the 22 drawings are eight feet high. At AFI, 1067 Madison Ave. at 80th: four illustrations for the Yiddish edition of The Old Man and the Sea. Both through...
...GUSSOW - Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. The streamlined slabs and slippery surfaces of modern abstracts in stainless steel, forged bronze and copper by a teacher at Pratt Institute who studied under Moholy-Nagy and Archipenko. Most are on loan. Through April...