Word: design
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Robertson's negatives arise not merely because he is a clergyman with no direct political experience. Rather, Robertson has been hurt by the impression that he would not only mix church and state but also impose a cross of his special design on society. Robertson complains that the press fixates on his religious views instead of his whole record. "What we have to do," argues his communications director, Connie Snapp, "is change the focus . . . let people know the whole Pat Robertson story...
...community, and even some in the defense establishment, believe that testing is premature. In July members of a panel created to advise the Pentagon's defense acquisition board concluded that the decision to move SDI into Milestone I should be delayed one or two years. Calling the first-phase design "still quite sketchy," the panel found that a "great deal of progress has been made, but much remains to be done before a confident decision can be made to proceed...
...mumbo-jumbo at the end of the movie further demonstrates Almodovar's utter lack of subtlety, his chaotic design. Indeed, he takes no notice of any traditional ideas of propriety. But as one of his characters says, "It's not enough to be unscrupulous. You have to have a certain sense of humor." In Law of Desire, Almodovar uses his well...
...Design of consumer products, on the other hand, tends toward the conventional -- as it does in the U.S. In neither country are there industrial-design stars in the European manner, and the transpacific parallel is probably not coincidental. Says Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a professor of art at Tokyo University of Art and Design: "In the wake of World War II, we learned American culture through the designs of goods at PX's -- by way of lamps, shoes, clothing -- not through the English language." And often they learned the banal dialect of mass-market American design...
...DESIGN: This just may be a golden age for Japan' s architects and graphic artists...