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...could do. So "Archilab" opens with a section called "The Pulsating City," full of models and drawings based on organic forms or made from flexible materials, like David Greene's witty Living Pod. The point of such work was to unlock the imprisoning grids of Modernism, to make the soap bubble as plausible a standard for construction as the cube. For their 1967 Villa Rosa project, the Viennese architects who call themselves Coop Himmelb(l)au proposed a dwelling made of attachable spherical modules. In the same era the British architect Graham Stevens produced the first inflatable structures, things...
...this season, with the Top 10 debut of ABC's eerie Lost, there are signs that viewers are ready for less naturalism and more supernaturalism. Fox recently debuted Point Pleasant (Thursdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a self-serious horror soap in which a young woman in a New Jersey resort town turns out to be the daughter of Satan. Says Pleasant executive producer and Buffy alumna Marti Noxon: The networks are discovering that "there are certain things that you can't do in reality shows...
DIED. RUTH WARRICK, 88, who made her film-acting debut in Citizen Kane but went on to greater fame with a 35-year run in ABC's soap All My Children; in New York City. After playing Orson Welles' icy first wife in Kane, she had a middling film career before finding her m??tier as All My Children's overbearing socialite Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, who once barred a chauffeur from her library because he was wearing jeans. "You say Phoebe," Warrick said, "and 50 million people know what you mean...
...DIED. RUTH WARRICK, 88, who made her film acting debut in Citizen Kane but went on to greater fame with a 35-year run in ABC's soap opera All My Children; in New York City. After playing Orson Welles' icy first wife in Kane, she had a middling film career before finding her m?tier as All My Children's overbearing socialite Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, who once barred a chauffeur from her library because he was wearing jeans. "You say 'Phoebe,'" she remarked, "and 50 million people know what you mean...
...themselves as "avid scent seekers," compared with 31% for the general market. So P&G tapped into that sensory preference in its packaging of Gain, a midpriced laundry detergent, launching several versions geared specifically to the Hispanic consumer: Gentle Breeze, Island Fresh, Whitewater Fresh. "There was really no other soap that satisfied me," says Juan Nungary, 35, a Dallas cabinet installer and faithful Gain user, touting the detergent's scent...