CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (12)

JOSEPHINE BAKER, SPY

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By Adam McGovern

FROM EACH…

10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.

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By Joshua Glenn

13th
Jul

Ernő Rubik

L D2 L′ F′ D2 F. U R L U2 R′ L′. F D2 F′ D′ F D F′. Anybody who has ever experienced...
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By Patrick Cates

13th
Jul

Clothes make the brow

WHAT’S A HILOBROW to wear? This is the question that bedevils me. When preparing to leave the workforce last year, I anticipated with relish...
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By Matthew Battles

12th
Jul

R. Buckminster Fuller

A New England scion twice kicked out of Harvard for nonconformity and “apathy,” R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER (1895-1983) went on to invent the geodesic dome...
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By Peggy Nelson

12th
Jul

Hilo Heroes, July 12-18

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JULY 12 A New...
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By HILOBROW

11th
Jul

Cordwainer Smith

Smith explored the inner landscapes opened up by postwar mind science.
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By Erik Davis

10th
Jul

Tura Satana

Clad in a leather jumpsuit, tiny waist offset by enormous bosom, her performance in Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) transformed what could...
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By Lynn Peril

10th
Jul

The Sweetest Hangover

I've got the sweetest hangover... I don't wanna get over.
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By Joshua Glenn

10th
Jul

Significant Objects

EARLIER THIS WEEK, Rob Walker and I launched an online experiment called Significant Objects. The project, in brief: Rob’s “Consumed” column in the New...
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By Joshua Glenn