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...sport is "one of the few events dads and sons can equally enjoy" [May 9]. What, girls don't skateboard? In his offhand statement, Hawk reveals the prevailing mentality: there are places where girls belong and places where they do not. Stop the brainwashing of young girls! Shelly Riley Steamboat Springs, Colorado...
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From Fitch, spurred to invent the steamboat by a mortal need for speed, to Turner, driven by the thrill of risk and winning, American inventors and innovators during the U.S.'s march to economic dominance in the past two centuries have thrived in difficult--even deadly--conditions. In They Made America (Little, Brown; 496 pages), author, journalist and immigrant Harold Evans celebrates the near mythic lives of 70 unique thinkers who beat long odds to realize a dream and, in their day, to improve life for the masses...
Among names stitched into Evans' work are Robert Fulton, often miscredited with inventing the steamboat but whose actual brilliance was in developing a market for river travel; Sam Colt, whose repeating revolver defeated foes of vastly superior numbers, was favored by Frank and Jesse James and set the standard for efficient mass production with interchangeable parts; and A.P. Giannini, whose Bank of America popularized mortgages and other loans for common folks...
...with a prologue from those brighter days, including the miraculous gem Ad Marginem, reminiscent of a medieval miniature, with a fiery red sphere aglow on a pale green ground, surrounded by feathery plants and fairy-tale creatures that seem to grow out from all four sides of the frame. Steamboat and Sailboats, Toward Evening and the abstract Polyphony are exercises in Klee's dreamlike version of pointillism, with light and shadow played out in multicolored dots. But 1933 brings an abrupt, definitive change in subject matter and style. The pale, thickly painted watercolor-and- plaster Head of a Martyr fills...