Word: ems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier may have dreamed up modernist architecture in Europe during the 1920s, but it took architects of the next generation, working in the wide-open, up-and-at-'em Western hemisphere, to make European functionalism a ubiquitous International Style during the 1950s and '60s. Two of the most fluent and influential New World apostles were the U.S.'s Gordon Bunshaft and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. This week in Chicago the two unrepentant old modernists will share the tenth annual Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Pritzker is by far the field's most prestigious award...
...beleaguered Customs Service welcomes the prospect of more military help. "It's great; we need 'em," says Deputy Customs Commissioner Michael Lane. "They can help significantly." But he has a terse word for any 45-day deadline in closing the border to drugs: "Lunacy...
ERIC CLAPTON: CROSSROADS (Polydor). Twenty-five years of mean guitar spread over 73 (count 'em) cuts. There're genius, passion and elegance here, as well as a fair bit of fluff...
...Jaycee vest with badges and pins, a black cowboy hat, boots, gloves and heavy brown nylon chaps. "They're brought in U-Hauls so they don't freeze. We don't buy dead snakes. They come loose in horse trailers where we've got to get in and / pick 'em out, in 55-gal. drums, plastic garbage cans, wooden boxes and even burlap sacks...
Steve Blad, in his Mr. Bingo tuxedo and jewelry, surveys the players from the center of the hall. "A quiet crowd," he says, his mouth twisting. "I'll get 'em riled up in a little bit." Mr. Bingo is a master at "riling up" a crowd, and has been ever since he took over a bingo parlor for the Otoe- Missouria Indian tribe near Red Rock, Okla., five years ago. At the time he was a marketing analyst with a three-piece suit and a little money to invest. A few years later, Steve took his "foolishness" to Big Cypress...