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The LBNP looks like an oil drum and can be fastened tightly at the waist. Made of rubberized, aluminum-lined canvas, it creates an airtight bag for the body's bottom half. Air is pumped out to create a partial vacuum. Since cabin air pressure is therefore greater on...
The jacket nips in at the waist, flares out slightly at the side with twin vents in the back. Padding squares off the shoulders. There are four buttons on the sleeve, and - a vestige from days when gentlemen rolled back their cuffs to duel or simply wash their hands - the...
Hoving believed that parks are useless unless they are filled with people. To entice visitors into what most New Yorkers considered wastelands of crime-ridden greenery, Hoving turned showman, scheduled a round of events, each "a little bit swinging." He brought in a computer to mate girls and boys in...
CABARET. Onto the sleazy canvas of a 1930 Berlin nightspot, the Kit Kat Klub, this musical squeezes the borrowed pigments of bloatedly satiric George Grosz cartoons, Brecht-Weillschmerz, and the black-gartered cinemantics of the Dietrich of The Blue Angel. A whale of a production but a minnow of a...
Kandinsky felt free to admit humor into his cartoonlike paintings. In Resurrection (see opposite page), a kneeling figure with acidic red, green and black tresses holds his hands over his ears while the trumpet of the Apocalypse sounds. There is a wit, a gay stylization, a fluid jumble of forms...