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Until the last decade or so, turn-of-the-century Vienna was neglected by serious historians of architecture and art, considered somewhere between unfashionable and taboo. The architecture of Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner and the paintings of Gustav Klimt were camp curiosities at best -- parochial, high-strung, dead-end digressions. Today, however, a kind of Viennese revival is under way. Prominent designers and architects are producing furniture and buildings distinctly reminiscent of Hoffmann, Wagner and Adolf Loos. Every second book jacket, it seems, has a thick, angular sans serif typeface derived from the Wiener Werkstatte, the seminal crafts collaborative...
...mention briefly just a few more shortcomings: Vigeland's coverage of the South Africa/divestment question is spotty and scattered; long quotes full of Wall Street buzzwords are strung together without explanation; and dozens of observations can only be called stupid--as, for instance, "The tiny typing discrepancy in the presence of periods in 'C.L.' and their absence in 'MCL' gave the paper the appearance that it hadn't been proofread...
...Dunkin' Donuts did not dominate the nation's highways and boulevards. ! The proliferation of chain restaurants (60,000 at last count) is a signal social fact of the past four decades, a transformation of the commercial landscape more swift and radical than any other in U.S. history. Strung out along main drags in every city, fast-food franchises become the strip, identically chaotic collages of glowing signs and prefab construction. The helter-skelter of the strip is the urban critic's most convenient cliche --cheap-jack American laissez-faire run amuck...
...ground ball to score a run. That's when he started pumping up his velocity, pulling out something extra. You could see it." A base runner juked Gooden into balking once. "That rattled him," Perlozzo remembers with a smile: a valuable lesson learned. But when he cooled out, Gooden strung together 15 victories that included a 46-inning stretch without an earned...
...against temperatures that plunged at times to 18 below zero, the crew had to wrap equipment in blankets; once indoors, lights frequently shattered because of the temperature change. After shivering on frigid sets, the cast finally obtained two 54-seat buses, where they changed costumes by retreating behind cloths strung up like curtains. Then last February, a month before he was scheduled to leave to direct a production at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, Schell was laid low by a fever for nearly four weeks. Torn between his Berlin commitment and the unfinished movie, Schell dragged himself...