Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brief Booknapers...
...brief moment in the 1960s, a group of architects inspired by Kenzo Tange and calling themselves Metabolists schemed to escape the mess with Utopian megastructures built into the sky or the sea. Having come back to earth, ex-Metabolists Fumihiko Maki, 54, and Arata Isozaki, 52, Japan's leading architects today, now seek to harmonize and integrate new and old architecture. In spirit, the old and the new have never been far apart. "We never saw the conflict that still seems to bother people in the West," says Nobaki Furuya, an architecture student at Waseda University. "We never...
...idea, and not altogether conventional or acceptable. But for a brief moment, Frank Reynolds broke the age-old notion of the unemotional, stolid newsreader, seemingly detached from all that he sees and does. He proved that he was hardly part of a dying breed--above all, he was a human being, and he showed that at a time when it was perhaps most understandable. In the all-important, ultra-professional, multi million dollar business of television news, sometimes that aspect of things is all too easy to forget...
Congressman Daniel Crane, 47, in a brief written apology, said, "I'm sorry that I made a mistake. I'm human, and in no way did I violate my oath of office. I only hope my wife and children will forgive me." Crane, a dentist from Danville, came to Capitol Hill in 1979. A year later, he and a female House page, then 17, had sex four or five times at his suburban apartment. The page, testifying that she "found the Congressman as an older man very attractive," admitted that she was "perhaps more responsible for the sexual...
Volcker did manage to startle some members of the Senate Banking Committee with one brief reference to his own future. Asked whether he would serve a full four-year term if reappointed, he replied, "I do not feel committed to do so." Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin said he was "somewhat shaken" by that admission. Volcker indicated, however, that he would stay on for at least two years. Volcker believes that the four-year terms of the Federal Reserve chairman and the President should roughly coincide. By leaving in two years, he would allow the next President to name...