Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stirling is adding what a Cambridge, Mass., guidebook calls "another strange beast" to this menagerie. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, to open in October, combines the bold orange and gray stripes of Memorial Hall with the proportions of Andrews' design school. But the Sackler's most startling feature is its aggressive mixture of historic motifs with raw industrialism. The slant-sided, flat-roofed entrance jutting into the street vaguely resembles the Lion Gate at Mycenae, but it is built of glass and metal and ! guarded by exhaust pipes with garishly painted air vents. Comments Harvard Graduate Student Michael Cornfield...
...main patterns of appropriation. The first is literal copying with intent to "deconstruct" the original, as done by Sherrie Levine, 38. Levine rephotographs photos by "classic" figures like Walker Evans and does small, exact, curiously loving copies of paintings by noted early modernists like Kasimir Malevich or Arthur Dove. The aim is to make people think about the status of originality; the work has a real and precise, if muted, aesthetic dimension...
...arrest, the Navy's unfolding spy debacle took on an ominous added dimension. Up until then, the espionage ring that began unraveling three weeks earlier had seemed a family affair. The three suspects were related: Alleged Ringleader John Walker Jr., 47; his son Michael, 22; and John's brother Arthur, 50. All were present or former Navy men, and all lived in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, the home base of the Atlantic nuclear fleet and a center of highly classified shipbuilding. While each had some access to the secrets of submarine warfare and coded communications, authorities had hoped...
...merchant vessels. It also contained the "Dear Johnnie" letters from the unhappy former spy, Whitworth; Walker's own three-page "Dear Friend" letter to his Soviet contact; and enough information on other associates to lead to the quick arrests of Michael aboard the Nimitz and John's brother Arthur in Virginia Beach...
...star once again plunges into the hottest craze. The movie takes place in a glittery jungle of Danskins and weight-lifting machines, a Los Angeles health club whose members pursue the perfect pecs. No one could be more gratified by the sight of this new mating ritual than Arthur Jones, the inventor whose sophisticated Nautilus machines have turned body building into sweaty chic...