Word: rohe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less may be more, according to the new designers, but for Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's dictum to be true, as he well knew, careful attention must be paid to structure, to supports, to underpinnings. Barrie frankly uses narrow crisscross straps, back or front. Crahay of Lanvin hangs his backless clothes from tied stock collars. Donald Brooks has engineered foundations into his backless dresses, so secure that a woman can even "curtsy and not fall out," he claims. But for women who want to be both bared and bra-ed, complicated problems lie ahead. One possibility...
...Less," said the late architect, Mies van der Rohe, "is more." Folk Singer Joan Baez and Husband David Harris-so happily married when he was in jail on a three-year sentence for refusing induction into the Army-have found since his release ten months ago that more marriage is less happiness. "Living together is getting in the way of our relationship," David has told his friends to explain the split. "I agreed with that," says Joan. "We're continuing to work together, and our son Gabriel is thriving, and that's all that matters anyway...
...Johansen is still relentlessly curious and something of a loner, but his dissent has firmed. With a growing minority of other highly gifted American architects, Johansen is engaged in what amounts to the first rethinking of the architectural commandments handed down years ago by the late Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. His new approach has crystallized in one challenging building: the Mummers Theater in Oklahoma City...
...Fred Rohe, president of New Age Natural Foods, a San Francisco-based chain, plans to sell stock to the public and start a franchising operation. Some New Yorkers are talking of organizing an organic foods mutual fund for investors. The newest wrinkle is the organic food supermarket, with well-stocked aisles and fleets of shopping carts. In Manhattan, at least, their customers come from all walks of life: long-haired young men with backpacks, wealthy parents with children, a few blacks and a sprinkling of the elderly. Many of them are operating in suburban shopping centers. Conventional supermarkets are also...
...Less is more," Mies van der Rohe said, and even the architects are beginning to doubt it. In the theater less is less-and less, and less. The Age of Cool is a blight to the theater. Drama was born to be larger, more vivid and more intense than life. Beckett tells us that life is a drab, attenuated prelude to death. The vaudeville japes of the two tramps Didi and Gogo in Godot are supposedly the ways in which we all kill time before time kills...