Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Sir Rudolf Bing ran a great opera house as if it were his own home. Of sharp tongue and sharper mind, Sir Rudolf tended to every detail at New York City's Metropolitan Opera -- planning the season's repertoire, hiring (and firing) conductors, checking the seamstresses as they worked on costumes. And the divas! Bing did not suffer singers gladly, and prided ) himself on his ability to control prima donnas, cajoling Montserrat Caballe or flaying Maria Callas with equally imperious vigor. In the years immediately following his retirement as general manager in 1972, Bing could still be spotted around...
...have one's personal logo -- Saint Laurent's initials or Chanel's stark block letters -- is very strong. He will be moving before long into the ready- to-wear field. That means that Lacroix must design two additional collections a year and execute them with restrictions on fabric and detail in order to produce reasonably priced clothes. But the master of folly is not fazed. "I believe it can be done," he says. "Ready-to-wear can have all the fun of haute couture, clothes that are very easy to wear, but with a little something . . ." and he snaps...
...public Saturday, features portraits from 3000 B.C. to the 1980s by artists from Sumeria to Renaissance Europe to modern America. Zerner said he plans to use examples from the portraits on display to demonstrate the development of the portrait from the stereotypical style of the ancient Egyptians to the detail of Rembrandt...
...dying George Balanchine. To the dance world the question at the time was Can the company survive for long? City Ballet was unique among the world's major troupes in that it was nourished each season by new works from a choreographic genius who also attended to every detail of preparation and casting, every peplum and epaulet, even the banners outside the theater...
...affiliated School of American Ballet, its national recruiting staff and its faculty, singling out his own mentor, Stanley Williams. "Stanley modeled those little muscles to look that way," he says of his Petits Riens cast. "It's a long, endless process, a quality of movement, an attention to detail." But the dancers know Williams is not the only one who cares about details. Says Martins: "Balanchine and I liked the same things -- big movements, lots of energy and precision. But I think I put more emphasis on precision...