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...piles waiting to be recycled into rail lines, girders and tools. Men and women break rock by hand to repave the highway that spirals down 7,000 ft. from the capital of Asmara to the seaport of Massawa. Workers trained by the grandfathers who built the railroad in the '30s lay reforged rails back toward Asmara; they have completed 26 miles in two years and cunningly restored the country's two 1938 Italian steam engines...
Springer, 54, launched his talk show in 1991, having served as mayor of Cincinnati in his early 30s and then anchoring a local news show there. With curly red hair, round glasses and slightly nasal voice, he has a style that is less empathic than Phil Donahue's and less excitable than Geraldo Rivera's. He's the intelligent, slightly smarmy observer of the antics around him. This is the peak of his career, but that doesn't mean he's getting as rich as Winfrey. Major advertisers like Procter & Gamble shun his show, which can charge only about...
Joseph Dorman is the director of Arguing the World, a documentary tracing the lives of four of the New York Intellectuals: Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol. The film begins with Marxism in the '30s and closes with Neo-Conservatism in the present day. The Crimson spoke to Dorman after the premiere screening of his film at Brookline's Coolidge Corner Theatre...
Soltis described the suspect as a man in hisearly 30s with a full brown beard, "kind of longhair," and eyeglasses. The intruder was about sixfeet tall, 200 pounds, and was wearing a longgreen ski parka, Soltis said...
...created institutions that would have seemed contradictions in terms in Paris or London: a Museum of Modern Art, for instance, which opened in 1929. New York City was turning into an international culture, which would make it a natural haven for artists and intellectuals displaced by Nazism in the '30s--whose presence, in turn, would help make the city into Modernism's center of gravity in the '50s. New York was the world's "shock city," and would remain so for decades to come--not least because it harbored such cultural variety. Another sign of this was the Harlem Renaissance...