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...American psyche. Though that image is being discarded, it is not going without a fight. In a Miami department store not long ago, the Cuban-born fashion designer Adolfo, a favorite of Nancy Reagan's, was pained to overhear two women express surprise that he was the creator of a collection that was elegant and simple. "Obviously," he laments, "they just assumed that anything a Cuban designed would be full of neon, sequins and ruffles...
There is no sign in the 558 pages of Picasso: Creator and Destroyer that Huffington has given a day's close thought to Picasso's art -- or anyone else's. To her, Picasso is mainly interesting as a celebrity with an odious character: a user, all but incapable of real affection, destructive to his friends, brutal to his women, cruelly indifferent to his children. Some of this is, of course, true, and it has not been a secret for years. The Big P.'s personal life was no oil painting, and Huffington documents it with zeal, leaving...
...many already suspected: Jobs would miss yet another deadline, by several weeks at the very least. The setback did nothing to allay the intense speculation surrounding the machine, but it did raise troubling questions about the computer's ultimate chances for success and about the formidable reputation of its creator...
...never before been shared, but the pairing seems apt. Both Niemeyer, 80, and Bunshaft, 79, are really being honored for their pioneering work of 25 and 35 years ago. Bunshaft is the Miesian. As the chief design partner at New York City's Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he was the creator in the 1950s and early '60s of humane, impeccable steel-frame-and-glass-skin office towers, among the best built anywhere. Niemeyer is the prolific Corbusian, a quirkier and more perilously romantic builder of singular, often bombastic objects -- most notably the major public buildings of Brasilia, the utopistic Brazilian capital...
...Pritzker Prize goes to a pair of apostles of the International Style, lately profoundly out of fashion. The U. S.' s Gordon Bunshaft, 79, designed humane, impeccable office towers, notably the Lever House in Manhattan. Brazil' s Oscar Niemeyer, 80, was the singular creator of the major public buildings of Brasilia. Both say they would do it all the same way again...