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...shapes are even more exciting than the stakes. West German architects are pitching a swooping, reinforced tent over the pavilion at right, while France's designers support the roof of their eccentric circle from extended vertical ribs. Most eye challenging of all is Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie's "Habitat," a visionary, multilevel village, complete with shops. Prefabricated, prestressed concrete cubes are equipped with kitchens, bathrooms, wiring, plumbing, insulation and windows made in an assembly-line plant on the site. Then the units, averaging 80 tons apiece, are crane-hoisted into position like gargantuan building blocks. When the project...
...excels when it comes to the great American ritual of the universal arm squeeze and the indiscriminate smile. Thursday for instance he took his campaign to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a few blocks from the spot where Barnum and Bailey's pitched tent when they made a special stop in that borough years ago. FDR Jr. pulled over on Eastern Parkway in front of a brightly lit cafeteria. Facing the building he looked out at Crown Heights proper, an old neighborhood of Italians and orthodox Jews. Behind him was Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most salvageable of the city...
Died. Arthur William Brown, 85, foremost U.S. magazine illustrator in the 1920s and '30s, who once said of his craft, "We are the ballyhoo guys to bring people into the author's tent," and did so in both books and such magazines as Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post, where his fine-lined, highly realistic drawings embellished the stories of O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...hottest burlesque shows that ever hit Broadway. It had a grossly libidinous libretto snippeted out of the plays of Plautus, and lickerish leerics that read like Pompeian graffiti. Above all, it had a huge round Zero named Mostel, who wore a fingertip tunic the size of a pup tent and went tippety-skipping about the stage like a bull walrus in drag...
...Bundestag can agree in advance on a successor, and that is out of the question as long as Erhard wants to stay. He realizes that the potshots are intended to wear down his will and lead him to resign. The Chancellor seems to have no such in tent, confided to a visitor last week: "I will survive all this...