Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shameful," "monstrous" and an example of "gigantomania." Such public censure of projects already approved by the top leadership would never have been tolerated under previous Soviet regimes. But the Kremlin seemingly agreed with at least some of the criticism, and is now holding a competition for a new design for the monument...
...American sportswear at home and abroad. Says Eleanor Lambert, a longtime industry publicist: "He has grasped the solidity and the worth and the drive of American life. He is a very stabilizing influence in American fashion." The determined dreamer from the Bronx has become a special kind of design star, whose imagination is less a source of amazement than of security for his still growing audience. Says up-and-coming Designer Zack Carr: "Ralph Lauren is respected for his consistent style and intrinsic quality year after year, and I appreciate that." So, evidently, do millions of customers who have come...
...pair of synthetic-rubber washers that keep hot gases from squirting through tiny gaps in the joint between sections of the solid-fuel rocket. When the O ring failed, escaping gas cut into the shuttle's liquid-fuel booster like a blowtorch and triggered a massive explosion. The modified design, said Thomas, will make a repeat catastrophe virtually impossible...
...primary alterations will be made only at the joints. So testing could begin at Morton Thiokol's Brigham City, Utah, plant later this month. But starting from scratch is still under consideration. Says Thomas: "The solid-rocket industry is to provide, by the end of October, a clean-sheet design (of solid boosters), which means that they are not constrained to existing hardware." Rebuilding the existing boosters, however, now seems the most likely solution, especially since it has the best chance of meeting NASA's current takeoff target of early 1988. This prospect, coupled with the go-ahead...
That single private car in use two decades ago was the Virginia City, a Pullman redecorated in the 1950s to the specifications of cafe society Chronicler Lucius Beebe and his friend Charles Clegg, members of the crushed- velvet school of design. The rococo trappings, now somewhat tattered, include gold-colored silk curtains, an oil painting on the ceiling copied from the Sistine Chapel and a white Venetian marble fireplace. Passengers who wish to slosh champagne on the open rear platform and watch the world whiz by can do so for a trifling $2,000 a day (drinks included...