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...whiz-bang optimism was hitched to a 20th century faith in technology, popular notions of the future became specific and potent, all the more so as fantasy antidotes to the Depression. A gyroplane for every family! Aluminum sidewalks! Houses made entirely of Bakelite! During the late 1920s and early '30s, a remarkable new aesthetic took hold: for an object to look modern, it had to look as if it had been retrieved from the future. Among a good many designers, sentimental nostalgia for the picture-book past --Gothic, Tudor, American colonial--was supplanted by an equally romantic infatuation with...
...will teach again, though at the conservatory level. "Anything can happen, you know," she says. "A manager once said to me that it's not so important how one's career takes off when you're in your 20s. The important thing is to stay in it through your 30s. If you reach 40 and look around to see yourself still singing, then you're having a career. I like to think I'm still peaking." Look around, Kathy...
...football player of 308 lbs. but just 6 ft. 2 in. Since their sideshow duties extend to the legitimate arena, neither is an Eddie Gaedel, the baseball midget of 1951 with "a strike zone barely visible to the naked eye." But both are Primo Carneras from boxing's '30s, outsize attractions obliged to double as spectacles...
Family and Friends suggests just how difficult this art can be. The novel takes the form of a recollection, a family saga about a rich matriarch and her four temperamental children. The Dorns have left Europe (perhaps Germany in the early '30s) to establish a manufacturing business in London. They prosper, even though the elder Dorn dies prematurely and leaves Wife Sofka to turn Alfred, Frederick, Mimi and Betty into proper gentlemen and ladies. But there is only so much a mother can do. Alfred is a somber bibliophile destined to run the business and refute the opening line...
...matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata, in his late 20s, but as Nanuli once confided to Borodin, family life takes a backseat to her husband's work. "He's a true Leninist," she said of Eduard Shevardnadze, "a dedicated Communist...