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...Glass House has been scrupulously restored and preserved, there are thousands of less well publicized Modernist homes on a kind of architectural death watch. The main threat comes from buyers with dreams of tearing them down to make way for McMansions. Or at least for homes without a flat roof, the tricky-to-maintain Modernist feature par excellence...
...mecca for some of the most creative heads in rock music. David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Brian Eno found inspiration here for the most interesting chapters of their musical careers. And there are some in the audience tonight who vividly recall the days when Bowie and Iggy shared a flat in the arty West Berlin district of Schoeneberg. Even for many of those too young to have been on the scene, it was these sounds of the 1970s that defined their image of Berlin. "Lou Reed's 'Berlin' record definitely added to the romantic notion I had of the city...
...rifle butt. That morning he had brought a long, thin package to work from the house in Irving where he spent weekends with Marina. He explained to the co-worker who gave him a ride that it contained curtain rods for his Dallas apartment, even though his flat had a full...
...computer--rather than the TV, DVD or the video-game console--as their primary form of entertainment," he says. Iger, a longtime technophile, prefers viewing early cuts of his studios' movies and TV shows on the 30-in. cinema-display computer screen on his credenza, not the 50-in. flat-screen television nearby. "The question became, 'What are we as a company going to do about this trend?'" he says. "You can't stand in the way of the consumer juggernaut that technological advances have created because, if you try, you'll lose or be marginalized...
...won’t just transform the production of solar power. It also could make pollution detectors much more sensitive, and it could find its way into home appliances ranging from computer chips to flat-screen televisions...