Word: entertainers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...border confused readers and newsstand dealers; it was hard to tell issues apart. Rense anticipates "close, intense involvement with Geo for the first six months," returning from Manhattan to her home in Beverly Hills most weekends. She will continue to edit Architectural Digest and Bon Appètit and entertain on both coasts. If that is not enough, she has begun test studies for new magazines on collecting and travel. "I rarely feel overwhelmed, though," she says. "When too many things go wrong, I just eat two pints of ice cream and everything seems...
...jarring first image, the current production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera captures the cardinal principle of epic theater: a rigid separation between the stage and spectator. This separation, or alienation, prevents the spectator from identifying with the characters. Brechtian theater presents man for scrutiny, to entertain and instruct the spectator. Didactic in intent, it forces him to observe, make decisions, and act on them. Under R.J. Cutler's direction, Threepenny Opera shines with all the power and excitement inherent in Epic theater...
...lucky (and smart) because in Bauhaus he has found a subject that badly needs debunking. Just because Wolfe didn't like modern painting doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it; paintings have no function but to provoke and entertain, and that is the province of personal taste. But architecture is different. It affects us everyday, and when it fails us, our lives are the poorer for it. And, sayeth the prophet Wolfe with characteristic grace and enthusiasm, architecture has failed us on a grand scale...
...birth occurred last month in a 50,000-gal. tank at the New York Aquarium, just off the boardwalk at Brooklyn's Coney Island. Both parents are performing belugas that regularly entertain visitors with such antics as retrieving objects and bussing their keepers. Because of their intelligence, size and docility, belugas (their name means white in Russian) have long been a favorite of aquariums and aquatic shows. At least three other baby belugas have been born in captivity, but none survived longer than a few weeks...
Most B & B proprietors, even those who are full-time innkeepers, are not trying to make big money. Says Suzanne Redd of Charleston's Sword Gate Inn: "We're in it for the pleasure. We love to entertain." Marian Binkley, owner of San Francisco's Hermitage House, agrees: "It isn't a business, it's a hobby. It's like having ten sets of house guests every night. The B & B owner has got to want to mother the world...