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...round-table debate last week sponsored by the Novosti press agency, two delegates fiercely disputed whether a guarantee of "freedom of demonstrations" should be approved at the conference. "Look what happens in the West!" one shouted. Exclaimed the other: "But it is necessary for democratization!" Not since the early 1920s had Soviet Communists disagreed so publicly on so contentious an issue. There was even talk of a party for non-Communists who support perestroika, to be called the Union of Fighters for Perestroika. Vladimir Kluyev, party secretary for Moscow's Lenin District, was asked if such a party might...
That Vanity Fair, one of the most celebrated avant-garde magazines of the 1920s, would once again be a trendsetter was exactly what Newhouse and Conde Nast Editorial Director Alexander Liberman hoped when they revived the long- defunct magazine in 1983. But after one of the most heralded debuts in recent publishing history, the new magazine collapsed under the weight of its own pretension. Eleven months and two editors later, Newhouse and Liberman hired Brown, an Oxford graduate whose spunky editing had turned around the British satirical monthly Tatler...
Cammarata is one of only a few handrollers left from Ybor City, a Tampa neighborhood that boasted some 300 cigar factories and 30,000 workers during its heyday in the 1920s. The handrollers, who now make their specialties only for tourists or connoisseurs, are descendants of Cuban cigar makers who came to the city in the 1880s after a fire destroyed their operations in Key West. Spaniards and Italians joined the 400 million-cigars-a-year business, forging a unique tricultural environment that persists to this...
Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier may have dreamed up modernist architecture in Europe during the 1920s, but it took architects of the next generation, working in the wide-open, up-and-at-'em Western hemisphere, to make European functionalism a ubiquitous International Style during the 1950s and '60s. Two of the most fluent and influential New World apostles were the U.S.'s Gordon Bunshaft and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. This week in Chicago the two unrepentant old modernists will share the tenth annual Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Pritzker is by far the field's most prestigious award...
...Garner's craft and natural buoyancy enable him to escape the disaster, his co-star quietly goes down with the ship. Moonlighting's macho man lacks the hell-for-leather flamboyance that the historic Tom Mix gloriously possessed and that this frail fictionalization desperately needs. As a 1920s cowboy, Willis is strictly 1980s Rodeo Drive...