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...roster is authentically eclectic. The oddities are, if nothing else, evidence of the Establishment's endearing tolerance for the quixotic. Elizabeth Diller's and Daniel Libeskind's wooden sculptures are provocative and perverse and may (possibly) be interesting art, but how much do they have to do with architecture? Lynne Breslin's dreamy, convoluted "Stargame" drawings would make good black-light posters, but is she among the several dozen most talented young American architects? At the other end of the spectrum, postmodern sweetness still has baby-boom adherents. The cupola- topped shingle-style studio that Mark Simon designed...
...participants in this nighttime battle royal, however, insist that it is not a duel to the death. "We don't see ourselves as pitted against Johnny Carson," says Barry Diller, chairman of Fox Inc., Rivers' corporate parent. "We're just aiming at improving the performance of the independent stations that carry us." Rivers, who roused Carson's ire last spring when she left for the competition without telling him first, is also sounding a conciliatory note: "My people will watch me; Johnny's people will watch him . . . We can all make it; the pie just...
...time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual for the picture people. And if you think make-believe rules only in front of the camera, think again. Says Barry Diller, chairman of 20th Century-Fox: "This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful...
Nelson, who will be the second politician in space--after space sickness expert Senator Jake Garn (R-Utah)--will participate in the Harvard-affiliated experiment. However, Diller stressed that Nelson "will not evaluate the experiment, only make sure the parameters are adhered to and that they are executed properly...
George H. Diller, spokesman for the National Aereonautics and Space Administration--which funded the experiment with a $1.5 million contract--said the tests would study "red cells, lucelytes and platelets" in space, and would allow researchers to observe the various degrees of sedimentation in the blood samples...