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...artist, a man answerable only to his own instincts. (After just a few years of marriage in the 1920s, his hapless wife Ada decided to stop resisting his regular infidelities and move out.) Mies insisted that the architect must surrender his urge to add personal "touches," but he broke his rule on some of his greatest buildings. The slender steel mullions that run up the walls of the Seagram Building and provide its rhapsodic vertical flight, have no structural purpose. The real load-bearing steel is buried behind them in the flame-retarding concrete required by New York fire codes...
They were the unfortunate generation, all right. I was an eight-year-old boy in England when World War II broke out in 1939. My two sisters, nine and 10 years older than I, were lucky to be girls; nearly all their boyfriends were killed. My country fought sooner, longer and at greater cost than America, but at no time did we think we were fighting against genocide. What we contested, as did Franklin Roosevelt, was the Nazis' violent assault on Western civilization. Democracy was saved, and with it, all the freedoms that we currently take for granted. That...
...version of 'How High the Moon,' Lou Pallo does the intricate plucking; Les mostly sits in on his own signature song. It's an instrumental (Paul never worked with a female singer after he broke up with Ford), but there's still a pretty woman on-stage: Parrott, the Australian double-bassist. 'I want her to get damn tired,' the old spieler says. ''Cause I got somethin' in mind.' Now he's playing the cute old goat. 'I feel like a condemned building with a new flagpole.' Parrott soldiers on, with exemplary forbearance, and Paul puts a note of hope...
...coming. A nice married couple was suddenly sooooo 1954. Paul looked less like a genius- guitarist than an irrelevant uncle. Les and Mary did commercials for the Robert Hall clothing chain ('When the values go up-up-up/ And the prices go down-down- down') and Rheingold Beer. They broke up the act, and their marriage. (Ford died, at 52, in 1976.) Paul pretty much retired. He survived quintuple-bypass heart surgery; it was one of the first operations of its kind - another Les Paul innovation. Back from the dead, he was named to the Rock Hall of Fame...
...nerves. It had been almost two weeks since she last heard his voice, and she'd spent too many sleepless nights chasing away fears of avalanches and infinitely deep crevasses. Then, at 10 p.m. on May 24, the news came: Erik had reached the summit. "My friends and I broke out in celebration," recalls Ellie...