Word: strause
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race favorite Sally Straus of Yale missed the event because of a pulled groin muscle, and the Wiley-Stricker duo was never really challenged. "I couldn't really tell how fast I was going," Stricker said. "I'm used to having people pass me going uphill. Nobody...
...slogans, demands a degree of bravery verging on folly. Nobody would accuse Tom Wolfe of lacking either. And so, in he goes, promising to make sense of the past few decades of American architectural taste with a short book, published this month, titled From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 143 pages, $10.95). Wolfe has talent as a stirrer, but his text bears out John Stuart Mill's remark that "the second-rate superior minds of a cultivated age .. . are usually in exaggerated opposition against its spirit...
EASY TRAVEL TO OTHER PLANETS by Ted Mooney Farrar, Straus & Giroux 278 pages...
...CARE OF TIME by Eric Ambler Farrar Straus Giroux 277 pages...
...former Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art on Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The Wolfe in chic clothing, having savaged much of the modern art world in The Painted Word (1975), unleashes his hell-bent prose on the architectural profession this fall in From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $10.95). At Hartford's old gallery he got an edifying uplift from an edifice he admires. The building's designer, Edward Durell Stone, fares well by the writer's architext, but most practitioners will wish that they had kept this Wolfe from the door. "The stiff...