Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before he was an architect, Johnson became the director of the architecture department of Manhattan's fledgling Museum of Modern Art. In 1936 he scandalized his colleagues by resigning from his post and, imbued with fervor for Nazi Germany, trying to start a splinter fascist party in America. This failed, and in 1940 Johnson entered architecture school. He had backed into the profession as a critic, but in the process he had helped bring Mies van der Rohe to America and fought bravely to shift avant-garde taste in the direction of the same Utopian machine culture he would...
Said Nancy Burch, director of the Salem Women's Crisis Center, which had urged Greta to bring the charges in the first place: "I feel terrifically saddened by the verdict and concerned about the future of women who have to live with marital violence daily." But other feminists were more optimistic. Despite the defeat, said Noreen Connell of the National Organization for Women, "the very fact that there has been such a case" means other married women will now be less hesitant to seek legal remedy if they are sexually assaulted by their husbands...
Having said all that, one must admit that there is a certain liveliness in Director Pierson's work. He has a way of filling out the frame with energetic, emotionally charged-up figures. There are color and movement in his work, and it contrasts vividly with the more calculated and congealed commercialism of current American movie fare. One suspects Pierson was undercut by his producers, who perhaps imposed safe, name character actors on him, asking him to force up the predictable parts in his script and play down what might be more surprising. The conclusion is that you could...
...been asked to attend this stupifying tale? Is it that Erich Segal is attempting to atone for the indecent commercial success of his first story with the sober-not to say pompous-tone of this sequel? Or is it simply that his property somehow fell into the hands of Director Korty, who is one of the least spirited operatives around? Feckless questions about a feckless project, no doubt...
...Coop officials behind Bacall stood beaming, as more and more people strained to crowd into the book department. "This is the biggest turnout we've ever had--we've sold over 600 books in an hour," Ruby Newman, director for advertising and public relations, said Friday...