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...century and this one too. No one would claim that the taste for clean, simplified design that emanated from its classrooms ever became universal, certainly not among the toiling masses the Bauhauslers hoped to speak to. And nobody believes anymore that good design can produce a more virtuous world. But all those steadfast geometric tea sets and tubular steel furnishings drew lines in the collective consciousness. They're still basic to our picture of the modern home--even if we don't happen to live...
...collective of fierce individuals and a continuing work in progress. But while the school may have been a group enterprise, it was largely the creation of one man. In 1919, the year it opened, Walter Gropius was a young German architect recovering from dual traumas--World War I and his turbulent first marriage to the formidable Alma Mahler. One of history's supreme narcissists, she betrayed her first husband, composer Gustav Mahler, by having affairs with both Gropius and painter Oskar Kokoschka. After Gustav's death, it was Gropius she wed, only to leap a few years later into...
...glowing exception to the trend is our invention of the year. We chose the Ares I rocket not only because it's a marvel of engineering but also for a symbolic reason: it's a link between a horrific past (the V-2 rocket used by Germany during World War II) and an optimistic future, in which we reclaim the dream of traveling to other planets...
...watershed year for countless other reasons: the rise of the Web, protests in Tiananmen Square, the Exxon Valdez disaster and the birth of The Simpsons, to name a few. To commemorate the historic nature of that year, we're publishing TIME 1989: The Year That Defined Today's World. The foundation of the book was a special issue of TIME International, edited by Michael Elliott. The book is filled with superb essays and iconic pictures that trace how that pivotal year is still shaping our world today...
...organic chemicals at all and is more energy efficient than traditional dry cleaning. The downside, some have found, is that the cleaning isn't always as thorough, though Kistner believes experienced cleaners can compensate. "We pride ourselves on knowing which method to use," he says. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...