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...asked John's daughter Frances if I might have a picture of him, so that I could recall his tight, sweet-tempered face. She gave me the choice of the dashing John as a fighter pilot in World War II, the one with the goggles dangling from his neck, or the older John I knew, who sold real estate. I took the more recent shot...
...houses around the world, Levitt & Sons was sold to ITT Corp. for $92 million in stock, most of which went to him. That fortune bought, among other things, a 237-ft. yacht, La Belle Simone, named for his third wife, and a 30-room mansion in Mill Neck, N.Y. But the deal barred him from the domestic construction business for 10 years. Within four years, the ITT stock, which he had been using as collateral to build subdivisions in places like Iran, Venezuela and Nigeria, lost 90% of its value. When those foreign projects foundered, he was left with millions...
...fact, The Laboratory of Modernity exhibition was actually organized to complement Eric Rentschler's Weimar Cinema class (German 155). The works themselves are usually not beautiful. Karl Hubbuch's drypoint, profile portrait of The Schaefer Sisters shows the ugly sister fastening a necklace around her prettier sister's neck. The sisters are ably sketched, but their averted gaze, their isolation on otherwise white paper, and the blunt utility of Hubbuch's composition combine to give the viewer a queer sense of detachment, which prevents wholehearted admiration while simultaneously intensifying the clarity of appreciation. Like most of the other drawings...
HOSPITALIZED. RICK JAMES, 50, funk master; from a stroke; in Los Angeles. After popping a blood vessel in his neck during a performance, the "Super Freak" singer felt numb on his right side. Doctors expect a full recovery from the ailment, brought on, said James' spokesman, by "rock-'n'-roll neck--the rhythmic whiplash motion of the head and neck...
...also succeeds as a speaker. Richard Meier managed to keep a packed auditorium of impatient, trendsetting, party hoppers thoroughly entertained for more than an hour. He kept me, with my coat and scarf still on and my bag still around my neck, squeezed between people who were tall enough to prevent my view both of Richard Meier and his slides, happily standing...