Word: enfants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Johnson's reputation as an enfant terrible, floating like a butterfly between the styles and stinging like a bee at the conferences, goes back a long way. It is grounded in his wealth; he did not need to build for a living. The son of a well-off Cleveland lawyer who handed over to him a bundle of stock in a new company named Alcoa, Johnson lives in a manner unrivaled by many architects since the days of the gentlemen dilettanti of Georgian England. He maintains several buildings for his personal use, most of them in a rolling park...
...never shake the image. At 43, Francoise Sagan is still, in the minds of many, the enfant terrible of French letters whose precocious first novel, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), was so successful that it enabled her to adopt a reckless life-style of expensive fast cars, gambling and good whisky. True, true. But Sagan has also found time to spin off twelve more novels and nine plays. Her latest dramatic effort, scheduled for a Paris opening in the autumn, is called It's Nice Day and Night and is laced with familiar themes: an adulterous affair, alienation, the triumph...
...sign of that could be seen in its capital, Washington. Where were the modern designs to rival the dominant idioms of 18th century Georgian and 19th century Beaux-Arts by the Potomac? There was not much to see. The preferred manner, in a low-horizon city dominated by L'Enfant's neoclassical plan, was Beaux-Arts thinly covered with a "modernist" veneer: the cake minus the icing. From the postwar office blocks to the alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the past 30 years of Washington architecture have been a prolonged failure...
...Berlinguer, leader of Western Europe's largest Communist Party. In deference to Berlinguer, who has been careful not to antagonize the Kremlin despite his own protestations of independence, Carrillo shrugged off the snub he had received in Moscow. Said he: "I don't regard myself as the enfant terrible of Communism-if only because...
Without even a building to call its own, ;he Comptroller of the Currency's office is a federal backwater, responsible only for the important but dull job of regulating the 4,600 national banks. Suddenly, the comptroller's quarters at the L'Enfant Plaza hotel are among the busiest in Washington, as U.S. bank examiners press their potentially explosive investigation of Bert Lance's financial affairs. The comptroller's lengthy report is due soon, perhaps this week, and could save or squash the powerful budget director, who is Jimmy Carter's old pal, former...