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...team of writers and researchers worked on the stories back in New York City, art director Rudy Hoglund and deputy director Arthur Hochstein, who designed the layouts for the entire package, faced a difficult problem: how to create a strikingly original cover image. Their solution was to approach Christo, the famed Bulgarian-born environmental sculptor. In earlier works Christo had draped in plastic large sections of the earth -- a stretch of Australian coast, a canyon in Colorado -- but never the whole planet. This time Christo bundled a 16-in. globe in polyethylene and rag rope and drove more than...
...Give them to Christo so he can wrap a bridge or something in them and call...
Against South African Christo Steyn in the anticlimax of Lloyd's 14 Wimbledons, he could summon no joy even while taking the first two sets. "Christo was awful the first two. The final three, I was horrendous. He didn't have that much to beat, really. If I'd actually wanted it and enjoyed it--if it came from within--I would have won. But there was no charge in me. I've been doing this since I was eight, thinking of the next tennis match." One of the gentler fish wrappers inquired about his overpowering emotion. Lloyd said...
...book is drawn from 23 hours of interviews Castro gave last May to Friar Betto, 41, born Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo. The author, a Dominican brother in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a leftist churchman who served four years in a Brazilian prison for sheltering anti-government guerrillas. He embraces liberation theology, which offers theological support for resisting political and economic oppression and is usually based on Marxist analysis...
October 31--Christo, now a visiting professor in the VES Department, joins the contest with a design for a building resembling a five-story roll of paper towelling. The Corporation approves his plan and hires construction workers. "It will go so nicely with the Sackler Wing of the Fogg," exults...