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...message may take some time to understand, or even accept, but you can easily see that these photographs are intriguing in their originality, their contrast with more conventional photographs like Rudi Robinson's The Invisible Men/Europe series. Robinson who photographed Blacks in Europe said that he tried to show Americans that middle-class, "average" European Blacks exist. He tried to do this merely by depicting Blacks in ordinary situations. "I don't offer much explanation on images. I just take pictures," says Robinson...
Once settled, foreigners are elated by American entertaining styles. Italian-Brazilian Count Rudi Crespi, a Manhattan-based publicist for a number of Italian fashion houses, finds his evenings less predictable. "In Italy the host will call you three days in advance and tell you who your companions are going to be. In New York you run into interesting people, pick up ideas and get into lively discussions. If I wanted a programmed evening, I'd stay home and watch...
...Augusta, who is also a tube bender, shapes masklike faces like Elvis Machine in startling colors, and Los Angeles Artist Eric Zimmerman made a playful neon birthday cake for the city's 1981 bicentennial. "Neon is the strongest, most direct form of illustration," argued Artist Larry Rivers in Rudi Stern's 1979 book Let There Be Neon. "And the canvas is the night...
...DIED. Rudi Gernreich, 62, innovative Austrian-born fashion designer whose attempts to free women's clothing from rigid structure and the tyranny of French couture resulted in youthful, boldly colored, free-flowing styles such as tank dresses, miniskirts, the tank-top bathing suit, the see-through blouse and--most controversial--the topless bathing suit; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. The 1964 strapped, topless suit sold 3,000 copies, outraged the Kremlin and the Vatican and afterward overshadowed the reputation he deserved for more influential work...
...current Sox pitcher Oil Can Boyd is neither an earth-shattering or particularly interesting revelation. Gammons' awkward prose and his tendency to repeat anecdotes (how many times must we hear that after clinching the American League pennant in '75, Sox manager Darrel Johnson drank whiskey with Oakland Athletic Joe Rudi rather than celebrating with his team?) do not help matters...