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Modern American culture was dawning too. Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne had started work on Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter, respectively, and Herman Melville was preparing to write Moby Dick. Henry David Thoreau, laying the groundwork for environmentalism, was altogether disgusted by the new Zeitgeist and gimcracks. "I delight to come to my bearings," he writes in Walden, which he began in the late '40s, "not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place ... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What...
...DIED. Herman Brix, 100, Olympic shot-put medalist turned Hollywood actor, best known for playing the lead in 1935's The New Adventures of Tarzan; in Los Angeles. Brix was not the most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
...array of custom turntables, teepees and free fresh-squeezed orange juice. "People say, 'Is this a rock shop? A clothing shop? A bike store?' It's whatever you want to take from it. I'm just putting it out there," says Garduno, who, as a vice president for Ron Herman menswear and a buyer there for 20 years, has made a career out of predicting trends, including vintage denim and studded jeans...
...brothers used to play music in the annual Salt Festival. These days he lives in Austin, Texas, but spends much of his life on the road, as a sort of itinerant music minister. "So many songs by Chris have risen," says CCLI marketing manager Paul Herman. "He has really captured the heart of the church...
...acute view of American politics that applies today as much as it did then. Like Silvio Berlusconi and Michael Bloomberg, Kane (Welles) is a media magnate who runs for office. Like Mark Foley, he is caught in a sexual scandal just before the election. The brilliant script by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles is about a powerful man's need to be loved by the millions of people whose lives he dominates. And when they jilt him, he rationalizes the rejection by spinning tales of conspiracy. His newspaper runs the headline FRAUD AT POLLS...