Howard Zinn was the embodiment of the term "living legend," and his effect on how we see and teach history is immeasurable.
Though "in temperament he is definitely Latin," this exquisite "creature of the cosmopolis" may be one-sixteenth Cherokee, if we can credit "a scandalous legend to the effect that his great-great-grandmother was a beautiful Cherokee maid".
(The painting bears a handwritten legend to the effect that a painter's best friend is the enemy within him). (Through Jan . 25. Joseph Beuys (Marisa del Re Gallery, 41 East 57th Street): During the Documenta exhibition of contemporary art in 1982 in Kassel, West Germany, Joseph Beuys held one of the marathon teach-ins that are fundamental to his activity as a peregrinating one-person university.
You hike along it for a quarter of an hour, and then, suddenly, you're there: the physical spot where, according to nearly every legend, the stimulating effect of the coffee bean was first discovered, fuelling centuries of trade and war and politics and fashion, and giving birth to a world in which, today alone, approximately 2.5bn cups of coffee will be consumed.
As described in detail in the figure legend, the predominant effect of high n-3FA diet was PPAR γ activation resulting in suppression of lipogenesis primarily through downregulation of fatty acid synthase (FASN).
Working under special effects legend Tom Savini meant he learned his trade from the best.
He moved to New York, where one day he saw the visual effects legend Douglas Trumbull give a lecture about his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Once the dust has settled, come back tomorrow for a gentle follow-up: a profile of stop-motion effects legend Ray Harryhausen.
Shooting in L.A. Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle and Jack Palance star in this futuristic sci-fier produced by special effects legend Richard Edlund.
Special effects legend Doug Trumbull is releasing a high-tech, 10-minute movie that is a fictionalized version of his ongoing project centered on filming a UFO.
