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Twenty years ago, universal-design products had that telltale institutional look. Safety features on today's sleek kitchen-and-bath accessories are undetectable, even chic, like $300 brushed-aluminum and satin-gold grab bars--just in case you need to steady your balance in the shower. And there's a growing cadre of home-building professionals with expertise in strategies and techniques for producing attractive homes that won't seem as if they've been tailor-made for someone with physical disabilities. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) sponsors Certified Aging in Place Specialists (CAPS) training for contractors, architects...
ARRESTED. Huey P. Newton, 43, co-founder of the Black Panthers, the violence- and faction-ridden black militant organization that enjoyed a radical-chic vogue in the 1960s and '70s; on charges that he and an associate embezzled as much as $67,000 in federal and state funds; in Oakland. The money was allegedly taken from a community education and nutrition program the Panthers operated from 1973 to 1983. A post-arrest police search of Newton's home turned up burglary tools, a loaded .45-cal. automatic and a shotgun, for which he also faces charges...
Fonda set off to study painting in Paris in 1957, where she fell in with the chic set and fell in love with the director Roger Vadim, who had his own ideas about what constituted a good romantic relationship...
...Jack Boulware reminisces: "But -as it happens with everybody who had a great time in the 60s and 70s -it can't last forever, you know?" Though he's referring to the Mitchell brothers, one of whom killed the other in 1991, he could have meant the whole porno chic scene. Professional actors, even of marginal competence, gave way to born-and-bred porn stars like John Holmes in the 70s and Traci Lords in the 80s. "The turning point," says porn director Ed Deroo, "came in 1982, when it finally went all video. I missed film tremendously. Film...
...porno chic died long before that. If Throat in 1972 stoked the hope that hard-core might fruitfully intersect with mainstream, Jaws in 1975 ended that dream, and a few others. The Spielberg film's success, and that of Star Wars two years later, proved that the big-bucks audience comprised kids and teens, not adults, and it was the young who had to be pandered to. Adult films were largely marginalized, the hard-core back to the old grind houses (and later to video), the Hollywood ones to art houses and Oscar season. It's been that...