Word: design
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needed to know about the creation of the perfect noodle soup in Tampopo, you may now feel you are finding out more than you require about tax law and outlawry in contemporary Japan. But arcana have their own peculiar charms -- and their special usefulness in Itami's larger design. When his single-minded characters are thwarted in the pursuit of their hearts' odd desires, they have a tendency to burst into sudden, angry flame. And to elicit hysterical responses from bystanders astounded when a quiet oddball turns into a bright-burning fireball...
...Teachers and principals are too often hired and promoted in ways that make excellence a matter of chance, not design...
President Bok and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence will appoint a panel of faculty and administrators to help design a more aggressive minority faculty recruitment policy, Minority Student Alliance (MSA) officials said yesterday...
Even more daring was the decision by GE to team up with a foreign rival, France's SNECMA, to design and produce the engine. Their partnership, the first of its kind, arose in 1971 from the friendship between two old soldiers: SNECMA's chairman Rene Ravaud, a crusty, one-armed hero of the French Resistance, and GE's chief enginemaker Gerhard Neumann, who had served as ground-crew chief for the Flying Tigers in China. Each company brought a key ingredient to the partnership: GE shared its high-tech engine core, while the French firm contributed financing from its government...
...lies in their odd, slightly fetishistic technique. He works on square plywood panels, faced with Masonite and then covered with ordinary vinyl tiles. Over these goes a thick coat of black glop -- industrial butyl rubber, used by roofers. Once this tarry skin is dry, Sultan cuts and blowtorches his design into it, filling in white patches with plaster and enriching the whole with color. The seams of the tiles and panels impose a grid on the image, a ghost memory of the minimalist grids that pervaded American art in the '70s, when Sultan was a student...