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Nakashima's forms follow nature. His famous coffee tables are made of planks sliced from the trunk or root systems of such trees as the redwood or Eng lish walnut. Their natural configuration remains unchanged. So do natural breaks in the wood, which Nakashima holds to gether with small pieces of wood shaped like butterflies...
...American Landscapes," an exhibition of photographs at the Musemum of Modern Art in New York City, was mounted as a summer show, meaning a small one; and its contents-55 images of American nature, ranging in time from the 1860s to the 1970s, and in place from the redwood forests of California to the roadside strip of Rochester, N.Y.-are all drawn from the museum's own collection and put together by its curator, John Szarkowski. But its subject is a crucially important one in American visual culture. When the photograph was young, in the 1840s...
Disc Jockey Ralph McCarthy was playing Willie Nelson tunes, reading the news and serving up public service announcements one Saturday last November to the folks in the redwood country around Eureka, Calif., when he bumped, voice first, into a social phenomenon. He had just finished reading a message about single mothers who needed help in trying to re-enter the job market. The program, one of many for single mothers in Northern California, was sponsored by a group called Displaced Homemakers. Impulsively, McCarthy told his listeners: "I'm a displaced homemaker too. I'm a single father...
...everything, Oxford Press offers the Washburn College Bible, a dressed-up King James Version with 66 full-color reproductions of masterpieces from Giotto to Rouault and three screen prints by Josef Albers: $3,500 for a red leather-bound three-volume "limited edition" in a cloth-covered redwood case. A scaled-down one-volume slipcased trade version costs a mere $65. (Oxford's cheapest King James is $12.50.) At the opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have issued Bibles in comic-strip form. There are also vulgar paraphrases of the New Testament aimed...
Trendy types who party in their redwood tubs built for two or four or more may be buoyed by some notion that they are making a splash in 1980s fashion. But Architect and Social Critic Bernard Rudofsky pulls the plug on all that. "Why, in the Middle Ages," says Rudofsky, "people ate their dinner, conducted business, feuded, made love and even held wedding banquets in their tubs with the guests half-submerged in the water." Rudofsky also frowns on the chlorination, artificial scents and hygienic filters favored by contemporary communal splashers. Says he: "Americans have a long...