Word: architecte
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...filing trays and teapots. But since then the company has become one of the world's most powerful advertising firms. The WPP conglomerate has already swallowed up the New York City-based JWT Group, which included two leading U.S. agencies, J. Walter Thompson and Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein. The architect of WPP's remarkable transformation is Martin Sorrell, 44, the most feared raider to set foot on Madison Avenue...
...Gorbachev is the architect of "new thinking" in international affairs, Shevardnadze is his master builder. Like the General Secretary, the amiable, white-haired diplomat has a smile that can melt ice. And like Gorbachev, Shevardnadze sometimes shows a glint of iron teeth. Thanks, in part, to Shevardnadze's diplomatic labors, Soviet tanks and troops have been withdrawn from Afghanistan and are being partially withdrawn from Eastern Europe. A whole class of nuclear weapons has been marked for destruction under the INF treaty signed in 1987. As the Soviets and their allies disentangle themselves from conflicts in Namibia and Cambodia, they...
Others are beside themselves about what is being built in their place. "They're garbage," says architect Kevin Cozen. "These houses look like somebody stood there with a bag of frosting and just splattered it wherever they felt like it." The effect, not surprisingly, is that of a stage set. "I think the Spelling house is a joke," Cozen adds. "It's not a French manor. This is America in 1989. Someone like Aaron Spelling should be helping humanity by having people design things that will move the culture forward...
...longer any escape from the office. Simply to remain competitive, professionals find that their lives are one long, continuous workday, bleeding into the wee hours and squeezing out any leisure time. "My wife and I were sitting on the beach in Anguilla on one of our rare vacations," recalls architect Trunzo, "and even there my staff was able to reach me. There are times when our lives are clearly leading us." There are phones in the car, laptops in the den, and the humming fax machine eliminates that once peaceful lull between completing a document and delivering...
...most precious commodity to us is time," agree architect Trunzo and his wife Candace, both 41 and parents of two. "We have tried to simplify our lives as much as possible." Candace believes she and her husband are living "better lives than our parents. More hectic. But fuller." James wonders about that. "It's dangerous to use the word fuller. Where is that sense of spirituality that we talked about in the '60s? Where is the time to go up to the mountaintop? Technology is a diversion from life. You can be transfixed. I'm not sure that technology doesn...