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...wouldn't feel he had seen the future? The playfulness of high-art designers, however, is of a more rarefied kind. Instead of making gadgets, they construct jokes. Sometimes the jokes are academic, such as Michael Graves' neo-Biedermeier chair (1981) and Robert Venturi's line of Chippendale, Queen Anne and Empire parodies (1984). Sometimes the jokes are perverse, and the subject is the material itself. Scott Burton has carved chairs from solid granite (1984) and Gehry's fish-shaped lamp (1983) is made of Formica chips...
...best savored on a warm Friday evening along West Hollywood's main artery, Santa Monica Boulevard. There, a black-clad Lubavitcher family straight out of 19th century Lithuania strolls past a bus bench shared by a sneering heavy-metal-music freak with a slime green Mohawk and a drag queen done up as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Across the way, a convenience store advertises European specialties in Russian Cyrillic characters. And up the boulevard rolls a procession of white stretch limos, trundling the show-biz glitterati (and their accountants and orthodontists) to West Hollywood's tonier night spots...
...Kremlin or as grandly situated as the White House. But the sturdy brick house at No. 10 Downing Street has been the official home to British Prime Ministers since 1735. On the occasion of No. 10's 250th anniversary, the present occupant, Margaret Thatcher, 60, was hostess to her Queen, whom she welcomed with a deep curtsy, and to her five living predecessors: Lord Stockton, formerly Harold Macmillan, 91; Lord Home, ne Alec Douglas-Home, 82; Lord Wilson, once just Harold, 69; Edward Heath, 69; and James Callaghan, 73. After dinner, Queen Elizabeth, 59, joked that it was only...
...other--instead of 16 different sets, a cast pared-down from 28 to just eight, one pianist instead of an orchestra, and less than extravagant costumes. These measures give focus to Camelot's story, nicely highlighting its comic verve and the lusty love triangle between King Arthur, his Queen, Guinevere (usually referred to as Jenny) and Sir Lancelot. The cast conveys such high spirits and passions that their performances overcome any bothersome sense of the play's datedness...
...lovers generate a high reading on the steamometer. The rest of the east is consistently supportive, but generally better at clownishness than solemnity. Mordren (Jon Tolins), Arthur's wicked illegitimate son, is especially adept at delivering bitingly sarcastic lines like "Ah, Camelot--where the King gives freedom and the Queen takes liberties...