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...show runs through Aug. 30, then travels to the Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, in September. Advance bookings: tel: (44-870) 126 0268; www.royalacademy.org.uk...
DIED. ROBERT E. FULTON JR., 95, adventurer and inventor, best known for circling the world on a motor-cycle in 1932; in Newton, Conn. With the encouragement of his wealthy father, who owned Mack Trucks, the young Fulton took his 18-month trip home after completing school in Vienna. He later embarked on an inspired if eccentric career as an inventor. In 1950, he built a flying car called the Airphibian, a high-wing monoplane, which on one occasion flew from Maine to California. One of his inventions was a precursor to the modern flight simulator; another, the Fulton Skyhook...
...Barker's Victory, which opened at the Wharf Theatre last week, is not so much a loaded gun as a full-firing AK-47. An ageing enfant terrible of British theater, playwright Barker creates his own "theatre of catastrophe" by taking aim at history, whether the 1683 Siege of Vienna in The Europeans or the 1571 Battle of Lepanto in Scenes From an Execution. With Victory, for which Davis auditioned when it premiered at London's Royal Court in 1984, the battlefield is the post?Civil War reign of Charles...
...friend who conveniently inhabits a Greenwich Village apartment around the block. Matt is no longer the loser boy-next-door, but a tanned, buff, hot-but-doesn’t-know-it-in-that-aw-shucks-way photographer. Insert Billy Joel’s ballad “Vienna Waits for You and Love” and we’ve got a young love reunited. Forget that Matt happens to be engaged to a Chicago weathergirl. All it takes for Jenna to win him over is an innocent ride on a swing set and a pack of Razzles...
...Says Weinberg, “I ended up standing in the back of a bookstore on a payphone, reading two pages of Max Weber over the phone to Michael in the White House and connected by satellite to one of the First Lady’s staffers in Vienna, who was writing it all down verbatim...