Word: frankness
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...Frank Ledezma, LOS ANGELES...
...features light, video and art installations - all anchored around a clutch of seminal Wanders furniture. "This is like nothing we've ever done before in America," explains Wanders, who received the coveted Design Excellence Award from local Philadelphia collective Collab at the show's opening (previous winners include Frank Gehry and Georg Jensen). (See the best travel gadgets...
Over the past few years, however, there's been a Saarinen reappraisal. Set free by computer-aided design, contemporary architects like Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid have moved quite a distance from Modernist orthodoxy. And a great deal of Saarinen's work, especially his adventures in fluid geometry, today looks as if it's the predecessor of theirs. It's easier now to regard his expressive buildings as a principled attempt to reconcile the Modernist drive to purify and clarify with the abiding human desire for something that strikes other, warmer and no less essential chords. (See pictures...
Despite being a writer of tough-guy books, Parker was as mushy as a Frank Capra movie when he spoke of his wife Joan, the great love of his life. The pair met when they were 3, came to know each other well in college and were married for 54 years. He spoke of her as if still in the first thrall of romance, and dedicated to her almost every one of his 60-plus books. Once, during a rough patch, they separated for a short while. He was miserable. "I learned that I could live without Joan," he told...
...Frank Igwe is the Executive Director of the non-profit organization, City ACES (Athletes Changing Expectations...