Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month after Oui's debut, a former computer-company president named Ronald Fenton introduced Gallery, with Trial Lawyer F. Lee Bailey as a minority partner and celebrity publisher (he has since departed). Slavishly imitative of Playboy typography, makeup and design. Gallery has been in editorial trouble from the start-and is now rumored to have equally serious financial problems. Even so, Fenton claims monthly sales of over 1,000,000 -up from 340,000 for the first issue...
...year-old small-family firm, launched on $40 and the scrawny figure of a four-fingered mouse, has grown to encompass two of the country's major tourist attractions-Disneyland and Disney World; motion-picture-and television-producing Buena Vista studios; WED Enterprises, an engineering and design group that is fondly known as the "imagineers" and is responsible for many of the technological wonders of Disneyland and Disney World; several hotels, a travel service, a record company, a music-publishing corporation and a touring company; toy-manufacturing and merchandising operations; the governments of two legally constituted municipalities within Disney...
...clue to what has happened lies in the amusement parks. They are clean, bright, and-to some specialists-models of sensible urban design. But their rides and electronic puppet shows are plasticized, sanitized pseudo experiences, pedestrian reductions of fantasies and adventures. They boggle the mind without stimulating it. The same is true of latter-day Disney movies, often set either in a small-town America entirely detached from what is left of that old reality or in a scrubbed-up version of a turn-of-the-century world that feeds the nation's nostalgia for what it fondly...
Given the chance to tear down some musty old theater and to design a glass-walled new "culture center," most architects would rejoice and turn to their drawing boards. Not Chicago's Harry Weese. Though he is one of the nation's most talented architects, he goes out of his way to preserve landmark buildings. "We do it because it has to be done," he explains. "Fine old buildings give our cities character and continuity. They give us a sense of stability...
Portman is now working his special magic in other urban areas. In San Francisco, he is chief planner and part owner of the $200 million Embarcadero Center rising near the waterfront. In Detroit, Henry Ford II selected him to design Renaissance Center, a $500 million development that should give a new spin to the Motor City. He also has buildings completed or planned in Chicago, Chattanooga, Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Brussels and Paris. Last week the gentle, soft-spoken Portman, 48, announced that he will make his first foray into Manhattan, putting up a $150 million combination hotel-theater that...