Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proved a rewarding week for TIME. The magazine won the prestigious award for general excellence among publications with a circulation of more than 1 million. The prize, a stabile designed by Alexander Calder, is presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors and administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The citation commended TIME for "excellence in its coverage and analysis of the week's news, in its notable design and color photography, in its intelligent criticism of the arts and in its finely chiseled essays...
...design of the revolutionary million-dollar track features a resilient undersurface, which allows for a hard racing surface that won't damage runners' legs...
...understand less well than a foreign writer dead for a hundred years. Is this an aberration, or is it normal? Books say: She did this beacuse Life says: She did this." Barnes keeps the details of his narrator's life purposfully vague: the novel's complex and subtle design involves a sublimation of the personal into the scholarly, but Braithwaite's inner struggles remain the generating force...
DIED. Angelo Donghia, 50, American interior decorator whose contemporary design innovations, including severe upholstery on plumply overstuffed furniture, shiny lacquered walls and unusual combinations of fabric textures and patterns, became widely popular through shrewd marketing arrangements for products carrying his name; of pneumonia; in New York City. The first U.S. home-furnishings designer to endorse a line of sheets, in 1973, Donghia went on to promote his own decorating fabrics, furniture, china and glassware. His Manhattan office, which he called "gray flannel heaven" for its trademark men's suiting wall covering, welcomed such famous clients as Diana Ross, Ralph Lauren...
...educational benefits will unquestionably occur. For example, the personal computer has not only enabled our Business School students to avoid drudgery; it has allowed them to grapple with more complicated, realistic problems, using linear programming and other sophisticated analytic techniques not previously reasible for ordinary homework assignments. In the Design School, computer-generated maps and models reduce the time and skill required to complete a drawing so that students can experiment with many more ways of solving landscape planning problems. In the College, word processing en experimental sections of Expository Writing has not merely spared students the drudgery of typing...