Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artifacts, and innumerable other factors should be considered when constructing an archeological hypothesis. Tringham points out that Fell and other amateur archeologists, like von Daniken (whom she has debated), tend to base their theories on isolated bits of data taken out of context and thrown together in one grand design...
...McHugh: "I don't see a way for the company to stay open without LAMPS." President Stuverude, noting that Vertol has diversified into making railroad cars, scoffs at such talk as "a bunch of conjecture." Besides, he says firmly, "we are going to win LAMPS." Maybe-but the design will be based on UTTAS, and the main competitor once again is Sikorsky...
...addressing himself to the great fear among industry analysts that U.S. airlines will not have enough money to replace their planes as existing fleets age. Borman has an idea for that too: Eastern has petitioned the Government for permission to huddle with other airlines to work out the design of an economical jetliner for the 1980s. Other lines are cool to the idea, but it is an example of the fresh thinking that Borman is bringing to an industry that needs some...
...Museum of Modern Art in New York. There will be a 1-million-volume library, one of the few in Paris open to the general public, complete with language laboratories and film and tape-recording resources. A Center of Industrial Creation will offer information on everything from the design of everyday objects to the modern city as an archaeological site. Still incomplete is an Institute of Musical Acoustical Research and Coordination, to be directed by Pierre Boulez. There are rooftop gardens, a film center, child-care facilities and a restaurant. The center is also serving to attract new galleries...
John Whitney exploits the wizardry of computer graphics in Arabesque to create an elegant essay in formal design. To the insistent rhythms of an electronic sitar, Whitney creates an Oriental kaleidoscope of pulsating colors and lines. Roll'em Lola, a product of Southern California's Department of Film Graphics is a fast-paced car chase through a liquified Peter Max landscape that keeps changing into the sinuous humps and valleys of an Ingres odalisque. And Will Vinton simply uses animated clay to tell a sly parable of nature's revenge on three musicians who "groove too high" on their electric...