Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward A. Thomas
...Lieut. Edward Tidrick was hit in the throat when he jumped into the water. Another bullet hit him as he lay on the beach. He gasped out a last command: "Advance with the wire cutters!" There were no wire cutters; they had been lost in the blood-streaked water...
...Drunk's Castle. Edward Welsh was already in bed when the police came pounding on his door in Madison, Wis. They had been alerted by a motorist who saw him driving erratically. The officers, who had no warrant, were admitted to Welsh's home by his stepdaughter. They went to his bedroom and arrested him for drunk driving. In Wisconsin, a first drunk-driving conviction is a civil offense that carries no jail sentence. Welsh appealed the legality of his arrest all the way to the Supreme Court. He was vindicated when the Justices ruled...
Radical though the changes have been, the word hardly applies to Pelli's design. When the original museum structure, by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durrell Stone, opened in 1939, the architectural tone of 53rd Street-and of midtown Manhattan in general-was set by brownstones, mansions and beaux-arts commercial buildings. It was a world of rich, plum-pudding surfaces. When MOMA raised its polemic International Style façade of glass and polished marble, with those futuristic Swiss-cheese holes in the roof canopy, it looked apparitional. But now the context has shifted again. Thanks to the competitive...
DIED. Alan Schneider, 66, consummate stage director best known for his productions of plays by Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter; of brain injuries received when he was hit by a motorcycle; in London. Schneider was noted for his exacting fidelity to even the most complex script, as he worked to transmit the inner truth of a play rather than impose on it any other vision. He crusaded particularly for Beckett, and his productions of Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, among others, profoundly influenced the course of modern theater. Also closely associated with Albee...