Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most renowned and idiosyncratic individuals of our time. That is their trouble. An assembly of soloists has produced what British Architect James Stirling calls "an architectural zoo." Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts bullies its neighbors with masses of streaked concrete. The nearby Gund Hall by Australian John Andrews is a glass ziggurat housing the Graduate School of Design. It, in turn, clashes with Memorial Hall, a colorful Victorian Gothic fantasy across the street...
...another movie, Pumping Iron II: The Women, that Bushnell is definitively put in his place. In this semidocumentary about women body builders, one sees hormonal prodigies. The women are formidably developed. Their bikini bras look like preposterous Band-Aids attached to the nipples of a linebacker. An Australian woman in the movie, Bev Francis, has bulked herself up into a simulation of the Incredible Hulk. She clearly has the most daunting set of muscles in the Las Vegas body builders' competition that is the focus of the movie. But she loses because the judges think she looks too "masculine...
...malign publisher, Lambert Le Roux, is the captivating antihero of the piece. By cunning, he takes over both a populist tabloid and a stately, ultraupperbrow daily. The character has been assumed by many people in Britain to be a burlesque of Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Sun and Times of London, as well as the New York Post, Boston Herald and Chicago Sun-Times. There are conspicuous differences: Le Roux is a South African, not an Australian, and he lives in the Surrey countryside, not New York City...
...employees would pick to describe their boss. Industrious, yes. After graduating from Oxford in 1953, Murdoch worked as a subeditor on the London Daily Express in order to learn the newspaper trade. Ambitious, yes. Once he had revitalized his father's papers, he quickly bought a string of other Australian dailies, then eventually hopscotched to London in 1969, when he acquired the Sunday scandal sheet News of the World, and the U.S. in 1973, when he purchased both the San Antonio Express and News...
...because they apparently have left the running of Fox to Diller. Now that Murdoch has substantially increased his stake in the TV game, he may be more eager to help run the show. After all, Rupert Murdoch feels strongly enough about this latest venture to consider forsaking his Australian citizenship. Television and newspaper historians, take note: March 28, 1985, may, in retrospect, be the day that 20th Century-Murdoch was born...