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...medium of photography, in Bauhaus design, in the mannequins of Josef Albers and Oskar Schlemmer, in the pipes and puppets in the portraiture section. The noisy whirligig of modern technology is both embraced in dada photo-montages of basketball-headed humanoids and controlled through the neat, organized designs of Herbert Bayer's movie house and exhibition pavilion, diagrams simultaneously full of primary color and filled with stark black lines. In responding to industrialized modern culture so precociously, Weimar visual culture was not simply concerned with making images, it was all about using images...
Austin was the final Harvard soldier lost in the Great War, adding to the 372 others, ranging from Robert Bacon, Class of 1880 who entered the war when he was 54 and a member of the Harvard Corporation, to Herbert Dickson '22, who had barely enrolled in the College...
...constant memory lapses and has to transpose all of his arias down to avoid the dreaded high Cs, yet desperately does not want to leave the public spotlight. Like Bartoli, even Mr. P (as Hoelteroff affectionately calls the Italian tenor) is overshadowed by the more provocative characters surrounding him. Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti's "motor-mouthed, bullet-headed, forever-tan egomaniac" publicist, adds a touch of much needed vulgarity to the usually cordial dialogue. For him, everything the press writes isn't worth "a thimble-full of rat's piss." Always mentioned in the same breath as the faltering...
Babe Ruth once justified the fact that he made more money than Herbert Hoover by saying that he had a better year...
Babe Ruth once justified the fact that he made more money than Herbert Hoover by saying that he had a better year...