Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both men designed buildings for the 1939 New York World's Fair. Bunshaft conceived his best and best-known work, Manhattan's Lever House, just as the United Nations headquarters, designed in large part by Niemeyer, was going up a few blocks southeast. Both men were the quintessentially Establishment architects of their generation. And, with success, both tended toward mannerism, became immune to tempering influences and got carried away with the thrills of go-go grandiosity...
...known in the American narrative art of his forebears in the '30s. At his best he seems, roughly, a cross between Edward Hopper and the Philip Roth of Portnoy's Complaint. Thus it seems just right that Roth has written a catalog introduction to Fischl's current show in Manhattan, six paintings on view at the Mary Boone Gallery through June...
...even more theatrical show is being planned. In the meantime, performers move in and out of the Cirque's cast as the show travels. The youngest so far is seven-year-old Annie Wagner-Bouthillier, one of 14 -- count them -- 14 riders in a bicycle balancing stunt. In Manhattan's Battery Park City, it should not be hard to recognize her. She'll be the one with the big smile...
...Pritzker Prize goes to a pair of apostles of the International Style, lately profoundly out of fashion. The U. S.' s Gordon Bunshaft, 79, designed humane, impeccable office towers, notably the Lever House in Manhattan. Brazil' s Oscar Niemeyer, 80, was the singular creator of the major public buildings of Brasilia. Both say they would do it all the same way again...
...immediately dangerous. Nicotine is not likely, for example, to fatally overstimulate a healthy heart, cause disorienting hallucinations or pack anywhere near the same euphoric punch as many other drugs. "People die with crack immediately," explains Alexander Glassman, a psychopharmacologist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in Manhattan. "With cigarettes the problems occur 20 years down the line. Nobody lights up their first cigarette and dies...