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That bracing ingenuity marks many of AMMI's exhibits. Nam June Paik's video installation is an automobile frame on which are mounted 65 screens, each strobing scenes of Bonnie and Clyde or Abbott and Costello or any of a hundred other images. AMMI's apex is Tut's Fever, an Egyptian-style movie palace conceived by Artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Twin Shrines to the Silver Screen | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...same time, as Trade Expert Clyde Prestowitz argues in his recent book Trading Places, the flight of budding entrepreneurs from large heavily capitalized corporations is wounding the very U.S. companies that are most capable of competing with the sprawling industrial giants of Japan. Even some leading entrepreneurs, mostly those whose brainchildren are now billion-dollar companies, say the start-up craze has gone too far. Gordon Moore, chairman and co-founder of Intel, the chipmaker based in Santa Clara, Calif. (1987 revenues: $1.9 billion), says "vulture capitalists" have lured away some of his best technicians with offers of seed money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Vs. Small | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...American counterintelligence official, came from information collected over many months suggesting that the Warsaw Pact countries possessed "bits and pieces" of top-secret NATO wartime contingency plans. Investigators then discovered proof that Soviet planners had highly classified documents. Last week West German officials arrested retired U.S. Sergeant First Class Clyde Lee Conrad and charged him with being the linchpin in an "especially grave" Soviet intelligence penetration of Western defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clerk Who Knew Too Much | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...beginning this summer's pilgrimage, Turnberry on the west coast seems a happy spot, being so convenient to Glasgow. The course fairly floats in midair over the Firth of Clyde, much the way Pebble Beach overlooks the Pacific Ocean, including the crashing surf and even the barking seals. Turnberry's open spaces are generous, and the heavy work is yet to come: the hands ringing in the heather and the hands wringing over the gorse. Scottish golf is a bouncier brand, played as much on the ground as in the air, and only when the putts are rolling well does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Misty Birthplace of Golf | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...Clyde H. Greenert, Union Carbide's director of public issues, said yesterday that his company had stopped funding the center because it disagreed with the study. "We decided to stop funding for a variety of reasons, certainly including the fact that [the EEPC] is a proponent of something that would be disastrous for our industry," Greenert said. "Because of this, we decided that it might not be the best place to put our money...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Center Lost Federal Funds After Report | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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