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...their job or taken a leave to go to New Mexico. None were paid for their time. Jean Hixson was a former W.A.S.P. who taught third-graders in Akron, Ohio, under the sobriquet "the supersonic schoolmarm." Jan and Marion Dietrich were identical twins from California, dead ringers for Natalie Wood. Janey Hart was the wife of a U.S. Senator. Four of them had logged more flying hours than any of the seven men chosen two years earlier as Mercury astronauts. Jerrie Cobb, the first to be tested, was a shy, restless woman who had worked ferrying planes to obscure corners...
...James Wood, a prominent literary critic and writer for The New Republic, will also be teaching two classes next year. Buell said that the focus this year on recruiting 20th century scholars is part of a conscious effort to modernize the department...
George Jacobs spent 15 years as FRANK SINATRA'S valet. And they were very good years. But they're over, and now he's spilling his guts in a new book, Mr. S. The highlights? Sinatra's affair with then underage Natalie Wood; third wife Mia Farrow's annoying him by talking to her deaf cat Malcolm in sign language; J.F.K.'s snorting coke with Peter Lawford; and the Chairman's donning special underwear--"a cross between a panty girdle and a jock strap"--to restrain his massive, uh, endowment. Guess there's such a thing as being too Frank...
...dollars commissioning and maintaining art, some of it having dimensions you associate with the Army Corps of Engineers. In the late 1970s, it was Dia that bought artist Donald Judd a derelict, 340-acre Army post in Marfa, Texas. Judd filled it mostly with his rows of concrete, wood or aluminum boxes, the alpha and omega of Minimalist sculpture. It's Dia that in 1977 paid for and still superintends The Lightning Field by Walter De Maria--400 stainless-steel poles arrayed in a rectangular grid in the desert of New Mexico: width, 1 km; length, 1 mile...
...prevent the hallway in the bridge section from seeming too long, the architects staggered the wall panels and put windows at the far points—like lights at the end of the tunnel. The interiors of the apartments are bright as well. The kitchen cabinets are light-colored wood laminate, an elegant alternative to Formica or some other cheap material. The floors are cork, a natural material matched by cork trees that will be integrated in the landscaping below. My only complaint would be that in the mid-rise, there are no corner windows, which would have taken better...