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Astute museumgoers will supply the missing history for themselves. And perhaps on their own they will also draw the tempting parallels between Vienna's fin-de-siecle and today's end-of-the-century ferment. Sometimes the connections are plain: a brooding eroticism pervaded Viennese art, and today in Manhattan, a well-attended theater piece called Vienna: Lusthaus is heavy with that musky retro scent of doom and libido. The handsome stripped classicism of Loos and Wagner has clear echoes in the architecture of Michael Graves, Andres Duany and Mark Mack. Today as then, the hip bourgeoisie is overeager...
What they used to hear was a single voice lifting the words from the page, and many novels and short stories are still recorded plain, unadorned by music or echo chambers. But the tape of Stephen King's The Mist is enhanced by what Simon & Schuster calls 3-D sound: voices are accompanied by rustling leaves, slithering tentacles, the flapping of prehistoric winds and the crawling of spiders as they descend on a small New England town. The latest Warner tapes are described by Deutsch as a "new version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok...
...democracy. On Ellis Island, Chief Justice Warren Burger led the new Americans, live and remote, in reciting the Oath of Allegiance. Off-camera, Burger was followed by U.S. District Court Judge Mark A. Costantino, the son of parents from Rome and Naples, who exhorted the crowd with a more plain-spoken vision of citizenship: "Take a real good look at each other. What do you see? You see people of all races, all colors, all creeds. What do we do in America when we meet people? We shake hands. C'mon, shake hands! When you've shaken hands...
...else in the world are sandwiches taken so seriously, and nowhere else do they make up so large and diverse a culinary discipline. Passions run high in defense of personal favorites and the proper way to make them: Should the bread that holds tuna salad be white or rye, plain or toasted? Is mayonnaise, Russian dressing, butter or mustard the correct spread for ham or turkey or roast beef? Does lettuce have any place at all in a sandwich of sliced meat, and if so, should the lettuce ever be iceberg? The Easterner regards the California predilection for mayonnaise...
Elsewhere the mood of the special day varied from good cheer to quiet pride to plain antagonism. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 300 students demonstrated against the regents' refusal to grant an honorary degree to jailed South African Black Leader Nelson Mandela; later, new graduates listened politely to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's persuasions for peace on earth. At Haverford College near Philadelphia, former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis doffed his academic hood and rejected an honorary degree after 28 faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years...