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...electric chair caught on slowly in the U.S. and not at all abroad. During the 1920s and '30s, the cyanide-gas chamber became state-of-the-American-art. It too was popular only in the U.S. Now there are lethal injections, which are seen as still more "humane." This latest technical refinement, which the European press finds chilling and fascinating, seems sure to remain strictly a U.S. practice. Sums up Notre Dame Theology Professor
Despite the long hours that he is putting in at his new job, Yasuhiro Nakasone was relaxed last week in his spartan but spacious office in the 1920s-style official Prime Minister's residence in Tokyo. On the eve of his first meeting with Ronald Reagan, Nakasone, nattily attired in a well-cut gray suit and soft black leather loafers, discussed a wide range of U.S.-Japanese concerns with TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Edwin Reingold. Highlights...
...curse and care for his wife Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar). She sets his nights ablaze with her Lorelei beauty and passion, but she doesn't really love him. She loves making love, and so she exercises her power in one of the few ways open to a woman in 1920s Germany: by becoming an entrepreneur of lust. Promiscuous as a prancing stud, possessive as any hausfrau, Hanni drives "Fatty" Bolwieser to the twin dominatrices of drink and despair. Called to court, the cuckold testifies to his wife's fidelity while she dallies with two of the village...
Among the great skyscrapers built in Manhattan during the 1920s and '30s, the 56-story Chanin Building has worn its years well-as has its creator and namesake, Irwin Chanin, 91. The architect is being honored by his old alma mater, New York's Cooper Union, in a retrospective. Chanin designed eight Broadway theaters and two monumental apartment houses on Central Park West. Perhaps his most cherished work is his personal suite of art deco offices on the top floor of the Chanin Building. The bathroom alone, done in glass, mirror and gold plate over bronze, cost...
...Brooklyn Museum and travels to the Chicago Historical Society at the end of April, is a model-simple, detailed, elegant and a bit fanatic-of what such shows should be. It encompasses the work of one of the very few great designers America has produced. Starting in the late 1920s, James labored in a fine frenzy within the airy precincts of haute couture. He believed himself to be an artist, the equal of anyone who created with paint or plaster, and he died at 72 in 1978, just like the burnt-out creator of so much contemporary myth, broke...