Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martel said that he closed the store for remodeling purposes. "It was a little smoky, but a night worker put the fire out. It's all cool with the the Board of Health," he said...
...Francisco Graphic Designer Michael Vanderbyl looks to Europe for inspirational rigor. The checkerboard fields and two-tone corded trim of Vanderbyl's bed linens for Esprit recall Josef Hoffmann. The palette (peach, delft, ash) is sober and cool, Wiener Werkstatte monochrome given a pastel California ruddiness. Vanderbyl sheets would go nicely in a Christopher Alexander house. Alexander, a Berkeley architect and urban theorist, has lately turned his militantly humanist attentions to office furniture. No workstations or open plans for him. Instead, Alexander and his colleagues have designed mass-production desks and bookcases that are solid and reassuringly old-fashioned, classic...
...eyes filled with tears. He was overcome with emotion. He stared down at the table, and the tears ran down his cheeks. "I'm sorry," he said as he found his voice. "I don't like to do that." It was a rare show of emotion for the cool and distant Hart. Somewhat defensively, he pulled himself together. "I don't weep for myself," he said. "I weep for this country...
...list of his materials, apart from paint, would include paper, staples, canvas, rough foil formed by throwing a bucket of molten lead on the canvas and letting it cool there, sand, gold leaf, copper wire, woodcuts and lumps of busted ceramic. It is highly unlikely that more than a few will survive for 50 or even 25 years. Kiefer carries a disregard for the permanence of his materials to such an extreme that the lead will not stay in place and the straw on some canvases is already rotting, though this does not seem to discourage collectors...
...stage has been set for a cool but correct meeting between the two women in Washington this week. Last month Mrs. Reagan invited Mrs. Gorbachev to a White House tea at 3:30 on Wednesday. After a two-week delay, Raisa finally accepted, then said she would prefer to visit Nancy in the morning so that she could attend an afternoon meeting between Gorbachev and U.S. journalists. Tea? Before noon? Nancy was incensed. Nevertheless, she agreed to meet with Raisa at 11:30 Wednesday morning. "It's a coffee now," sniffed a White House official, "and a tour...