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Dedicated art lovers Franziska and Gerhard Flögel traveled from their home in Germany to a remote cove in northeastern Spain on July 2 to visit the creator in his studio. They toured his inner sanctum in appreciative silence. They marveled at his unusual materials, his precise execution, his sheer ingenuity. And then, like everyone else at El Bulli, they sat down and ate the master's work...
...each of the 100 days that Documenta lasts, Noack and Buergel select two people to send for dinner at Adrià's restaurant. "We go into the exhibition space and watch for someone who, figuratively, speaks to us," says Noack. Franziska Flögel became one of the chosen after she happened to strike up a conversation with the curator about the exhibition's audio guides, and let slip that she and her husband had been coming to Documenta since 1968. "We had read that two people were being sent each day," says Flögel. "But we thought...
...Vanities" whose stage name was Flo Allen. But his true love was his second wife, Dolly Haas. Dorothy Louise Clara Haas was born, in 1910, in Hamburg to a German mother and an English bookseller father. As a teenager she appeared in "The Mikado," "The Merry Widow," Wedekind's "Franziska" and a Max Reinhardt spectacle. In theater or cabaret, the redheaded "flapper" was a beguiling presence. By the age of 20 Haas was starring in an Ufa movie with her own name in the title ("Dolly Gets Ahead"). From 1930 to '35 she played the worldly waif, the child-woman...
WOMEN In some races there are clear favorites, such as China's Le Jingyi in the 50- and 100-m free and Germany's Franziska van Almsick in the 200 and 400 free. But other races will be more wide open. In the 100- and 200-m breaststroke, for example, Penny Heyns of South Africa, Samantha Riley of Australia and 14-year-old Amanda Beard of the U.S. all could win. Four-time Olympic champ Janet Evans may medal in both the 400 and 800, though she faces challenges from teammates Cristina Teuscher in the 400 and Brooke Bennett...
...most controversial new medical treatment in Vienna today is that of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, who claims to cure both physical and mental illness through the invisible forces of "animal magnetism." Although many reputable physicians insist that this magnetism does not exist, Mesmer points to the case of Franziska Oesterlin, 28, a friend of his wife's, whom he successfully treated two years ago for hysterical convulsions, pains in the ears, toothache, fainting spells, retention of urine, and delirium. Newspaper reports of that case brought Viennese flocking to his office...