Word: adler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discoveries as yet unknown. Though past explorers often failed to find what they were looking for-the Fountain of Youth, a Northwest Passage-they often stumbled across wonders they never dreamed of, from precious stones to uncharted oceans. Says James Seevers, an astronomer at Chicago's Adler Planetarium: "Out of the atmosphere of earth, you have an utterly clear view of the planets and the stars and the galaxy. The entire universe is open to you. We've probably learned as much in the past 20 years, since we've had a few satellites up there...
Department-store officials do not expect Nipon's tax problems to hurt sales of his popular dresses. Observed Sonia Adler, editor of Washington Dossier, a monthly society magazine: "Most people who buy his clothes are not going to read about his tax problems in the papers." Nancy Reagan, however, is no longer among his customers. According to Sheila Tate, the First Lady's press secretary, "She had some Nipon outfits in her wardrobe back in the first year of the Administration, and she wore some of his clothes during the '80 campaign because they are easy...
...finished his bestseller The Great Quotations, Thoughts is a compilation of highlights from the words and wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers. Tops in this cerebral hall of fame is Sigmund Freud, who gets 20 out of 750 pages, followed closely by Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. Any disgruntled illuminati who feel they were left out may yet turn up in Seldes' next book, tentatively titled Adventures with People: The Noted, the Notorious and the Three S.O.B.s...
...occasionally gone to the drawing board to produce their visions of a well-designed vehicle; in 1928 Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret proposed a clever small car that was never produced. In the Annan's Parking '30s Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius designed various solid-looking bodies for Adler luxury convertibles. American artists instead used standard models as a kind of canvas or armature. Examples: the aggressive Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal roof of another '63 Chevrolet; The Bicentennial Welfare Cadillac by James Roche, decked out with mirrors...
...Revenge of the Robins Family, Adler and Chastain...