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Moreover, from the first festivities, it was obvious that the developers and their principal architects, Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Inc., had overcome excessive commercialism with enterprising taste. Thompson is the creator of the festive markets in Boston, Baltimore and the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., due to open in September. The success of these places derives mainly from the mix and quality of the products sold and the people who sell them. Says Thompson: "We try to make shopping pleasurable and personal again. People dealing with people, with smells, movement, things to touch and taste-a full and free...
DIED. George Lichty, 78, creator and cartoonist (from 1932 to 1974) of the satirical Grin and Bear ft, syndicated at its peak in more than 300 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Santa Rosa, Calif. His distinctive one-panel series was neither comic strip nor editorial cartoon, though his jokes grew more topical. One regular character, the bombastic Senator Snort, was a favorite of President Harry Truman, who owned twelve original Lichty cartoons...
...creator of this populist style was born in 1904 in Lebanon, Ohio. He was a set designer and stage manager before he took his theatrical flair into industrial design. One of Wright's earliest and handsomest pieces, designed in the mid-'30s, was a "corn set" made of chromium-plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst...
...There is no definitive David Bowie," he once remarked. Ziggy and the Duke have been slithered out of, like shucked snakeskins, but their creator remains a well-nurtured enigma. Perhaps by design: in concert or in conversation, he always seems like a scrupulous creation. The body, even relaxed, seems conscious of pose. The face?Leslie Howard sketched by George Grosz?can be nearly beautiful, but the mouth splits its sculpted lines when it turns up into a toothy, gratified grin, like Chaplin's as he watched a fat man fall. Bowie's eyes, always appraising, seem to look straight down...
...United Church of Christ: "We're not good enough or responsible enough. There is no question about it. We will abuse this power." Bishop Finis Crutchfield, outgoing president of the United Methodist Church's Council of Bishops, thinks that efforts to modify the work of the Creator constitute "pride, the deadliest of all sins...