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...historical allusions in this corporate style (and there were plenty of them) were seriously trotted forth as an antidote to International Style purity. But they tended to escape the architects' control. Buildings mean things; sometimes they convey meaning in highly complicated ways, but they can also be very blunt, and unconsciously so. The silliness of many of the biggest recent official architectural projects in America flows from this. No doubt when Gordon Bunshaft and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the vast concrete drum of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington they had in mind the "ideal," unbuilt funerary monuments to heroes dreamed...
Second, the Administration's relations with organized labor are at an abysmal low. Both union and Government insiders sum up the attitudes of President Carter and AFL-CIO Chief George Meany in four blunt words: "They hate each other." Meany bitterly complains that the guidelines press down on wages more than on prices, and calls for mandatory controls on both. In the latest round of hostilities, Carter last week crossed Meany's name off the list of Government-approved directors of the Communications Satellite Corp. (COMSAT), which prompted Meany's heir apparent, AFL-CIO Treasurer Lane Kirkland...
...While Gore has often been impolitically blunt with Hollywood, there have also been moments when Gore the Politician seemed to be apologizing to the industry for what Gore the Crusader had done. Those moments, no surprise, have coincided with the times that Gore is gearing up for the grubby, expensive proposition of running for president. Shortly before his 1988 race, Al and Tipper suggested during an off-the-record lunch with leading entertainment figures that her campaign against the record industry had got out of hand, particularly when it reached hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, where Gore...
Carter sought to blunt some of the conservative reaction by indicating that normalization would lead eventually to a bonanza for the American economy. He spoke to reporters glowingly of "the new vista for prosperous trade relationships with almost a billion people." U.S. trade with the mainland now totals only about $1 billion a year. Says Ping-ti Ho, an expert on China at the University of Chicago: "The reason the Chinese have not bought from the U.S. is largely related to the absence of full diplomatic relations. Normalization will remove this barrier...
...Trip to China and The White House Transcripts-were financial failures, with returns as high as 60%. The Pentagon Papers was their biggest success, with 1.66 million in print. "It is a high-risk venture," admits Stuart Applebaum, Bantam's publicity manager. Rena Wolner of Berkley is more blunt. Says she: "It's crap shooting...