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Gazing at the miles of neighboring urban sprawl and walking through the TV treadmills of Desilu and Warner's, the casual visitor to Hollywood will find it difficult to believe that it was once the habitat of Cro-Magnon man. His name was Harry Cohn, president and production head at Columbia Studios, and he flourished during the movies' Pleistocene epoch-circa A.D. 1930-58-subsisting on the backbones of executives and the egos of movie stars. When he died in 1958, more than 2,000 people turned out for his funeral, prompting Red Skelton to compose the most...
...Concentration in the mass university: The large college and the large university have become a standard habitat for many of these students. The environment is often quite impersonal. There is little sense of a united community of scholars and students and administrators. The impact of greater size has been increased by the recent neglect of the undergraduate in favor of graduate students, research, and external service...
...tried hard to make its girls look ordinary in a wholesome sort of way?just like the Nude Next Door. The illusion is heightened by the fact that the girls are presented not only nude and in color but also in numerous black and white pictures in their natural habitat, whipping up a batch of muffins or playing the guitar. Suggestive poses are out, as are the accouterments of fetishism. None of the nudes ever looks as if she had just indulged in sex, or were about...
...even more exciting than the stakes. West German architects are pitching a swooping, reinforced tent over the pavilion at right, while France's designers support the roof of their eccentric circle from extended vertical ribs. Most eye challenging of all is Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie's "Habitat," a visionary, multilevel village, complete with shops. Prefabricated, prestressed concrete cubes are equipped with kitchens, bathrooms, wiring, plumbing, insulation and windows made in an assembly-line plant on the site. Then the units, averaging 80 tons apiece, are crane-hoisted into position like gargantuan building blocks. When the project is finished...
...seldom sees a bureaucrat without a pipe or with a hat, his habitat is corridors, he takes his exercise indoors, he is always somewhere in between two meetings where he should have...