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Pity the fate of the prolific German composer Georg Philipp Telemann. Never heard of him? Here's why. During his heyday in the 1700s he was quite the pop star on the church-music scene, but according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, "his reputation later declined because he was not an innovator." He has fans today who think he got a bad rap, but it shows how history judges people. The reference work gives far more respect to anyone who really innovated, ranging from fashion guru Elsa Schiaparelli (for the use of shocking pink) to bridge engineer Robert Maillart...
...resurrect the airship. In 1993 a new company was formed to create a prototype, the LZ No. 7, which Danneker piloted on its maiden flight in 1997. Its construction was funded by a foundation set up by companies that came into existence as parts suppliers in Zeppelin's heyday, and their motives sometimes seem more sentimental than business driven. Thus far, only one airship has been built, and another is under construction, with contracts to sell a total of five. Sponsors have invested $35 million to develop the ships, and to break even the company will need to sell about...
SMASHING MICROSOFT The heyday of Microsoft (1995) was also the heyday of the Smashing Pumpkins. Now they're both on the train to splitsville. A tale of two Bills...
...references and parodies that made the original show such a cult favorite. The preview looks amusing and the filmmakers appear to have put some legitimate thought into a potentially clever story. But the real question is whether today's youth will flock to see cartoon characters who had their heyday decades...
Malevich, Popova, Kandinsky, Chagall-these are the names that typically come to mind when someone mentions the Russian avant-garde in its early twentieth century heyday. In her book Exploring Color: Olga Rozanova and the Early Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1918, art historian Nina Gurianova adds a new name to the old list by paying tribute to Olga Rozanova, a lesser known artist, and showing how she helped pioneer developments in futurism, suprematism and the role of color in painting...