Word: bausch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainly by O.S.U. alumnus and Columbus-based retailer Leslie Wexner) may have been the perfect project for this hyperintellectualizing bad boy to prove himself on: it was conceived by the university as both a museum and a seedbed for avant-garde art, from Anselm Kiefer paintings to Pina Bausch performances to a new video installation that displays images from the building's surveillance cameras. Did the university want a fin-de-siecle monument to erudite monomania, inspired nervousness, the intriguing lunatic gesture? Eisenman was the man for the job. "I get weepy that O.S.U. took this risk," he says...
...Czechoslovak scientists have made several advances in plastics. Bausch & Lomb used materials and techniques patented by the Czechs to produce the first soft contact lenses. Now Czech researchers say they have invented a plastic that can withstand temperatures of up to 4,000 degrees F. American aerospace firms are interested in using it in rocket nozzles...
...days, $3,595 from Wings, Inc.) to Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion (25 days, $3,775 from Field Guides Inc.). Though some birders regard their hobby as a naturalist rejection of high-tech culture, the rebuke often requires frequent jet trips, Leitz 10 x 40-B Trinovid field glasses, Bausch & Lomb or Questar spotting scope and a Sony TCM-5000 tape recorder, especially souped up for birding by Saul Mineroff of Valley Stream...
...true American traditionalist would look elsewhere for the real foundation of American fashion: at the wrap-around drama of some Bausch & Lomb Ray-Bans, at the democratic perfection of a simple Hanes T shirt. Ideas for American clothes are sketched, smoothed over and sold on Seventh Avenue, but the real inspiration comes from all over the country: from what teenagers wear to cruise Revere Beach outside Boston or the Galleria mall in the San Fernando Valley; from the work clothes of soldiers and astronauts; from the wardrobe tricks of rock stars and artists at gallery openings. Much of what...
...safe, perhaps? The edge of contemporary music-dance theater is now to be found in West Germany, where Choreographer Pina Bausch and a coterie of disciples are taking the 60-year-old tradition of German Ausdruckstanz (dance of expression) and transforming it into the even rawer and more visceral Tanztheater. Their work, several vivid examples of which were seen in Brooklyn this fall, is a cultural outcry that rends the emotions: the tumult of a displaced culture engaged in profound self-examination...