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...business elites ended up settling upon puritanical Modernism as the official style of fat and happy capitalism. Mies was a big part of the reason. He arrived in New York at age 52, with little English but with the powerful support of the Museum of Modern Art. Philip Johnson, now the gray imp of American architecture but then MOMA's architecture curator, devoted important shows to Mies and connected him with wealthy patrons. One was Phyllis Bronfman Lambert, who later became the founding director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Toronto and has now organized the Whitney show...
JUDGMENT AWARDED. To RICHARD BOEKEN, 56, steadfast two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker for 40 years, found to have lung cancer in 1999; more than $3 billion in damages from cigarette maker Philip Morris; in Los Angeles. Boeken's lawyer accused Philip Morris of pushing smoking as "cool" despite its addictiveness, which he measured by recounting that his client had quashed addictions to heroin and alcohol, but couldn't quit smoking...
...This week one of the twin pioneers of this pop renaissance releases an eagerly-awaited second album. Air's 10,000 Hz Legend is a sprawling baroque extravaganza. In 60 minutes of multifaceted music, it sparkles with unlikely references: Pink Floyd, cult sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick, Eric Satie, White Album-era Beatles, German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk and the Beach Boys are all in there somewhere. But there's also impeccably modern production and the latest computer technology. Air transcends its influences to create something dazzlingly unique. The duo from Versailles - a well-off suburb west of Paris...
...That process could stretch on for years, during which time Philip Morris will benefit from a long tradition of judges overturning personal injury awards. Of the six individual plaintiffs who?ve won cases against tobacco companies over the past four years, only one has actually received a part of the initial award. Richard Boeken, whose health is deteriorating rapidly, isn?t holding his breath for a check...
...nearly every academic field. In other words, he reads not only the latest in Shakespeare scholarship but also genetics. He reads in some eclectic discipline for at least an hour every day, he says. He was a professor of English, with a deep affinity for the poet Sir Philip Sydney, and after Harvard, he plans to work on a project cataloguing art, another area in which he is a connoisseur. He is famous for his handwritten thank-you notes. And his speeches are utterly charming, as he every year dubs himself an honorary member of “your classy...