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...part Amex vows that the wars have just begun. "We are by no means uncorking the champagne bottle," says Chenault, 46, Golub's heir apparent and the architect of the company's comeback in cards. "But we are very much in the game, which is a very different situation from three or four years ago." Chenault still winces at the memory of a focus group back then, when the holder of a rival card that earned free airline miles declared, "I want to go with you guys, but you guys are so stupid that you're not offering this product...
...GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, BILBAO The first great building of the 21st century has turned up a few years early. In the unspectacular Spanish Basque city of Bilbao, architect Frank Gehry has deposited a branch of New York City's Guggenheim Museum of Art that is a tribute to the power of that great contemporary idea, "Stop making sense." Beneath the cocked hats of its undulating towers, the most delightful architectural mind of our time has been everywhere at work. Without stooping to the twee historical quotation of so much postmodern design, Gehry has repudiated Modernist sanctity, symmetry and right-angled geometries...
...Getty Center Los Angeles may not be the Athens of America, but it now has its own Acropolis. With a mere $1 billion from the Getty Trust, architect Richard Meier has performed a feat of late-Modernist classicism, a complex of art research, museum and conservation facilities that sits on a hill along the San Diego Freeway, quietly emanating the notion that civilization is whatever it is that produces buildings like these...
Four politicos shared the mike last night at the Institute of Politics to discuss the history of presidential campaigns, but it was the flamboyant James Carville, chief architect of the 1992 presidential campaign for Bill Clinton and Al Gore '69, whose characteristic soundbites elicited laughter from the audience of about...
...narrow field; her 20-ft. palms are almost impossible to distinguish from living vegetation. "Our goal is to make you stand up and touch it to find out if it is real," says Lewis. She has allied herself with another globe-trotting expert: Paul Steelman, an interior architect who specializes in casinos. "Linda follows us around and helps create the casinos we want to create," says he. In a world hungry not just for American style but for American expertise, they make a formidable team. --Reported by Laird Harrison/Las Vegas...