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There are dozens of naturist (Europeans prefer this word to nudist to stress its back-to-nature aspect) beaches and resorts on the Mediterranean. Naturism began here in the 1950s at a simple campground that attracted Northern Europeans who wanted to strip in the sun. It took off, however, in 1970, following the French government's decision to promote naturist resorts as a means of diversifying the economy in the face of a decline in the local fishing and winemaking industries...
...reality of Bush's Midland is not as ideal as advertised. "The rewards are pretty disproportionately given out," says Bush's boyhood next-door neighbor Randall Roden. "There was some diversity with Indians and Mexicans, but you didn't find them owning oil companies or running them." In the 1950s the Midland Bush knew was prosperous and virtually all white, a town legally segregated just like others in the South. Even now, if you scratch Midland's surface, it's easy to find pockets of good old-fashioned racism, even among old Bush family friends, some of whom...
...proper-thinking modernist architect in the mid-1950s would have given London's Bankside Power Station much chance of making it into the canon of modern architecture. An enormous, darkly lowering hulk of brick, it dominated the south bank of the Thames like a factory, which in fact it was. But more valuable buildings have been lost to economic boom and proactive aesthetics than were ever ruined by decay and indifference. Nobody tore down the Bankside Power Station because none could agree on a use for its site. It just lay there, an unloved, comatose and grimy princess, waiting...
...plays and films including The Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) and Scent of a Woman (1974), which earned him a Best Actor award at Cannes and was later remade in English with Al Pacino; in Rome. Dubbed the "Olivier of Italy," Gassman flirted with Hollywood in the 1950s when he was briefly married to actress Shelley Winters...
...1950s, when Gehry returned to Southern California to start work as an architect, the prestige of classical modernism was as high as it would ever be. Even after he started his own firm in 1962, his private-home projects and small public buildings largely satisfied modernist expectations that any structure should be a spare, unified form clearly expressing its underlying function. All the while, Gehry was powerfully interested in painting and sculpture and the rising West Coast art scene. He counted as friends some of its emerging stars, including Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses and Ed Ruscha. What he really...