Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daughter of a blue-collar family in Cleve-land, Professor of Physics Mara Prentiss has come a long...
...hundreds of photos from last week's New York City fashion shows--through models changing on runways, women with giant zippers on their heads, Ivanka Trump with a wedgie you wouldn't believe--and darnit if the funniest shot wasn't of BILL BLASS. Maybe it was the one collar popping out of his jacket, or the way his right pant leg looked as if it had a cyclist's clip on it. But probably it was his tie, which stopped right below his chest. The disheveled-genius look is one thing, but Dilbert just doesn't work...
British soccer fans have their proud, blue-collar sections of Wembley Stadium. The French urge on the tennis underdog amid the dusty-red clouds of Rolland-Garros. Duke basketball is thunderously supported by the "Cameron Crazies." And there was nothing like the "Dawg Pound" in Cleveland before Art Modell whisked the Browns (er, Ravens) off to Baltimore...
...industrial landscape: to commemorate its former power and presence. All along the Nervion are shipbuilding yards, loading docks, cranes, massive obsolete warehouses--the kind of context that not only Gehry but also some of the artists he is closest to, like the sculptor Richard Serra, love. Disregarded, blue-collar beauty. The rusty pecs of Basque industrial capitalism. Seen from the far side of the river, the museum does indeed evoke a vast metal ship, full of compound curves, run aground--a sort of art-ark. "To be at the bend of a working river intersected by a large bridge," Gehry...
...wearing polyester. All polyester. A leisure-suit jacket, bell-bottoms, and a wide-collar shirt." --Richard A. Cooper...