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...there are unmistakable traces of Fuller's thinking in everything from prefab housing to sustainable green architecture. That's more than enough of a legacy to fill "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe," a show of drawings, models, videos and pipe dreams that runs through Sept. 21 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and then reprises next summer in Chicago...
...abiding preoccupations was how to mass-produce housing the way Ford made cars. He came up with the fully portable Dymaxion House, a metal dwelling suspended by cables from a central mast that held all the plumbing and wiring. He also produced a three-wheel Dymaxion Vehicle--the Whitney has borrowed the last surviving one--and even a Dymaxion Bathroom, which could be manufactured and shipped as a single modular unit. None of those worked out as manufacturing ideas in his lifetime, but they left behind proposals, plausible ones, for the future to work out for itself. What Bucky...
...high-energy world and sent a collection to magazines and museums. The images were unairbrushed and unironic, which freed them of the twin burdens of prettiness and ponderousness. He titled the portfolio "The Kids Are Alright," and the pictures apparently were too since New York City's fabled Whitney Museum snapped them up and exhibited them in 2002, making McGinley the youngest artist it ever honored with a solo show...
...Acclaimed gospel singer Dottie Rambo was one of her genre's most prolific songwriters, composing more than 2,500 works. She performed her songs across the country, but much of what she wrote was recorded by other musicians--among them, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Whitney Houston. One of her best-loved recent songs, Stand by the River, was recorded as a duet with Dolly Parton on Rambo's 71st album. She was killed in a tour-bus accident while traveling to perform in Texas...
...make driving a big vehicle just as unacceptable as throwing trash on the ground,” Cischke said, “but you have to have the market coming together at the right time to implement these changes.”—Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...