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...came over to study at the Bauhaus, then the Bauhaus folks came over here to flee Hitler. By the 1930s, the group had a label, "International Style," and an icon, Le Corbusier, and they had taken over the art world. Their manifestos and polemics killed trees from Paris to Pasedena, and the message was clear: we are going to create workers' housing from workers' materials, and the clients be damned if they don't want it. The clients-be-damned pose had an interesting side benefit. The gods in the International Style pantheon tended to write more than build...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Wolfe's Bau-Wow House | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

Mondo Cane is good because the films it is made up of are good. They come from all over the world and have subject matter of enormous variety: Nepalese Gurkhas slicing the heads off bulls, a "house of death" in Singapore, a pet cemetary in Pasedena, a French painter who uses paint-covered nude girls as brushes, a Malayan tribe which gets revenge on man-eating sharks by stuffing poisonous sea-urchins down their throats, and so on. The movie veers wildly between the funny and the horrifying. It should not be missed...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: `Mondo Cane' | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Fisher resigned after this game, and was succeeded by Arnold Horween '20, who played on the 1919 team, which defeated Yale, 10-3, and then went west and defeated Oregon, 7-6, on New Year's Day, 1920, at Pasedena. The 1926 and 1927 teams were, as all remember, defeated by Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 YEAR SURVEY SHOWS CRIMSON ABOVE BLUE | 12/16/1927 | See Source »

Years passed. Shorter of skirt but not of wind, she continued to play sterling tennis. In 1921 she was put at number 4 in the national ranking. Last March, in Pasedena, she took a set from Champion Helen Wills. She played her again last week in the third round, won the first two games, returned Miss Wills' terrific forehanders with a sting that made a huge gallery rise to cheer her. The match, however, could have only one outcome; the score of her de-feat was 6-3, 6-2. While this was occurring, Mrs. Lambert Chambers, Mrs. Bundy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's Tennis | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

Robert Freeman, Pasedena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Affirmation | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

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