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...Furlauds left the movies behind in 1968 when they moved to Big Sur, California to join the Esalen Institute for the practice of Gestalt therapy. In this Institute, which Furlaud describes as a "have-a-heart trap" where leaving is almost impossible, Max Furlaud received training in therapy based on the entire set of feelings a person experiences at any one moment...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Covering the News From a Zany Angle of Her Own | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Samarkand has long been a place of legends. Flattened by Genghis Khan in 1220 and resurrected as Tamerlane's capital and the jewel of the Silk Road, its turquoise tile domes and minarets possess a mythical status sur-passed only perhaps by Shangri-la. Together with its Uzbek sister Bukhara, it was a key stop for the caravans that plied the network of routes stretching from the markets of Istanbul to the silk weavers of China. Traders, diplomats, pilgrims and missionaries thronged the cities' bazaars as East met West in a blossoming of commerce and learning. But with the discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retracing the Silk Road in Uzbekistan | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...most of his short career--he was 51 when he died--he was ferociously assailed by nearly every critic and journalist in Paris. (Some of them actually liked his still lifes and reserved their scorn for his portraits and figures.) His greatest paintings, Olympia and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, which today are among the unquestioned masterpieces of the 19th century and are seen by many as the twin pillars that mark and hold up the entrance to modernism, were pilloried by every man of taste and jeered at by spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Still Fresh As Ever | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

DIED. SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS, 70, wildly theatrical rock singer; after surgery to treat an aneurysm; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He was best known for his drunken rendition of I Put a Spell on You (1956), an underground classic replete with screams, grunts and gurgles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 21, 2000 | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Ikpe spoke briefly about her senior thesis on male and female circumcision and the female response in those countries. The event ended with open discussion, including a question-and-answer session with Sur...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Groups Gather to Celebrate History Month | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

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