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...enter the wonderful world of good design now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, you pass fluttery rococo plaster nymphs in the ornate beauxarts classic entrance hall. The abrupt aesthetic change is like jumping from a sauna into a cool swimming pool. Titled "Design Since 1945," the exhibition (through Jan. 8) presents a world based on the primacy of function, which beautiful form is supposed to follow automatically. It often does. Modern style is the only authentic one of our time, and modernists and their friends therefore peremptorily equate modern with good. It often...
...same day, Saxon, 39, ran a hose from the exhaust pipe of his motorcycle into the sauna of his $685,000 condo in Venice, Calif. He apparently started the engine, then sat in jeans and socks while the sauna filled with carbon monoxide. When his body was found, so was a tape recording of a message to his estranged wife Susan. It explained that he had killed himself because he could not overcome his mounting business losses...
Temporary phones, centrex or otherwise, could have been (could still be) installed in the affected buildings. This step would have allowed students to forego frequent trips to a crowded Tommy's Lunch, a noisy Harvard Square, a sauna-like laundry room, or a neighboring house. Apparently, however, the University considers a convenient telephone to be a luxury item. Many students, on the other hand, do not consider it a luxury to speak with a teaching fellow, set up an appointment with a professor, or manage one's extracurricular affairs, not to mention calling the Harvard Police or the Escort Service...
...high school now, he is a straight-A student and a starter on the baseball team. Mary says, "He is always telling me that when he is very rich, he'll build a beautiful house and put me and his father on the second floor with a sauna bath, a fireplace and a Jacuzzi. Now we are a warm, happy family...
Like a bunch of lemmings, we propel each other forward, masochistically trying to be more reckless than the next. Vanity is hopeless and we resign ourselves to looking and smelling our worst. Friends from other parties tell us that Palmer Dixon is like a sauna, the stench unbearable. As Commissioner Gordon wraps up its set, the hockey crowd has, for the most part, left to go to other post-game parties. However, we trudge onwards oblivious to the last break...