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...their own city, who have to put up with unrelenting strains of a Sinatra classic with which they can no longer identify because it has become the Yankee theme song. Think about what it will feel like for them—for us—when Mayor Giuliani, a lifelong Yankee fan, gives them the Bronx Bombers the key to the city and thanks them for bringing the city so much joy in its darkest hour. Ugh. Watching his courage and leadership during the past month, I’ve found myself wondering why Giuliani’s image...
...years in Sao Paulo, Brazil's industrial center. He again adapted his surroundings into his work, using automobile paint to accentuate his sculptures. In 1980 he fled to the peace and quiet of Curitiba, a smaller city in the interior of the country. There he continues to pursue his lifelong quest to merge his birth culture with his ancestral one. "I transmit the calmness and order of my Asian upbringing," he says. But he also keeps faith with his South American side: "Art must transmit joy and energy...
That revelation marked the beginning of Knoll's lifelong fascination with one of the most mysterious episodes in the history of our planet: the sudden appearance some 540 million years ago of a wild profusion of multicelled animals. That event, known as the Cambrian Explosion, created the evolutionary dynamic that produced most of the species that subsequently populated the earth, from insects and fish to dinosaurs and humans. Given his background, Knoll was particularly interested in how geophysical and geochemical changes (caused by powerful tectonic forces) might have set the stage for everything that followed...
...goes for arcane subjects. His bestselling "The Professor and the Madman" told the story behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. His new book, "The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology" (HarperCollins; August 14) tells the story of William Smith, "whose lifelong obsession with fossils and the strata of rock formations proved to be the foundation for the science of geology." Kirkus adored it, giving it a starred review. "A fluid, fascinating, emotional story of an unlikely genius who created a science." HarperCollins is really behind this book, which goes...
...death. In her grief, she summoned a worshipful journalist, Theodore White, and told him that her husband loved the musical Camelot, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and would play the title song as he fell asleep at night. No one knows whether this is true--Lerner, a lifelong friend of Jack Kennedy's, doubted it--but White, in a touching piece for LIFE, duly conveyed to the country her vision of the Kennedy White House as "a magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done and when the White...