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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What all this comes down to, though, is Emmerich's last three paragraphs. This whole debate is shaping up into one more in the "man is the center of the universe" series. Copernicus got it, Galileo got it, Darwin got it. Anyone who dares to suggest that the universe is not divided into three parts--matter, life, and Man, with Man at the top--is accused of the most dreadful heresy...
Gothic Mansion. The real center of this project is a rambling, 18th century colonial house in Farmington, Conn. Named Strawberry Hill after Walpole's Gothic mansion, it is the home of Wilmarth ("Lefty") Lewis, 81, Yale class of '18, who has been editing Walpole letters since 1926. There the snowy-haired Lewis has recreated Walpole's library. Portraits of Walpole's family adorn the walls, and a converted squash court houses Lewis' huge holding of 18th century satirical prints. The collection is cross-referenced on 60,000 cards, so detailed that Lewis can easily answer...
...Guiding Red, Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler's biggest painting, has been rolled up in a warehouse ever since. Last week the work found a suitably grand setting: a 50-ft.-tall marble wall on the mezzanine of the south tower of Manhattan's 110-story World Trade Center. Why the title? Explains Frankenthaler: "I was guiding the red and j the red was guiding...
...first episodes center on the troubles at Globatron, a giant conglomerate run by a terrible-tempered tyrant everyone calls "L.W."-a woman, of course. Globatron is about to spend $125 million on a new ad campaign to promote Wilmington beer. Since women are the beer drinkers in this upside-down world (beer is considered too vulgar for men), Globatron has created the Wilmington Woman, the ideal consumer. The only problem is-shades of Myra Breckinridge-that the Wilmington Woman (Linda Gray) turns out to be a transsexual. While the board of Globatron considers this staggering information, the Wilmington Woman...
Veeck climbed out from behind his desk to consider the park. Corridors were bright with posters schoolchildren had painted. The Scoreboard in center, which now includes not only rockets but tapes of triumphal music, was primed...