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...over 25, light up when he is mentioned. Feminine "ohs" reverberate from Madrid, where Iglesias was born and raised, to Montevideo. "He rouses middle-aged women, especially the depressed ladies with no dreams," says Italian Psychologist Erika Kaufmann. "When he sings, they come alive. I call him the sex symbol of the menopause...
Instead, Erdosain joins a mysterious figure called the Astrologer in a plot to take over the world. It goes something like this: Give the masses a new religious symbol to believe in ("harness the madman power") and then exploit their zeal to create wealth, in this case by mining gold in a remote area of Argentina. The Astrologer explains: "See? We'll lure the workers in with false promises and whip them to death if they won't work." Erdosain feels flattered to be included among the brains of this organization. His invention of a copper-plated rose...
...Great Wall, which snakes across some 4,100 miles of northern China, has long been a symbol of national unity. Today the world's longest man-made structure also symbolizes disintegration. According to the Peking Evening News, more than half of the 100-mile segment within Peking's municipal limits is in ruins. One 19-mile stretch in Miyun county has virtually disappeared. The collapse is due partly to erosion and neglect through the ages; much damage was also done by peasants who expressed their contempt for tradition during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) by ripping off pieces...
Diffrient's chair prompts visionary speculations about the office of the future. Perhaps the executive desk will become obsolete except as a status symbol to sit behind, not to write on. And what of the conference room of tomorrow? How about a congenial grouping of Jefferson lounge chairs, their occupants all watching the displays presented on their individual monitors? -By Wolf Von Eckardt
...life may be found too ordinary for his glory: born 23 years ago in Birmingham, he was raised in Willingboro, N.J., and trained in Houston. Where Lewis is a standard of physical strength, Jesse Owens was a symbol of human struggle, against not only poverty and bigotry but tyranny as well. Owens' father was a sharecropper, his grandfather a slave. Carl's father and mother coach track. "Jesse was the greatest thing to me other than life's breath," says Bill Lewis, a fit and handsome man in a cowboy hat, who prizes a photograph of Owens posing with...