Word: exhibitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MOMA exhibition, the first architecture show in the museum's new west wing, conveys Neutra's human appeal as well as his architectural brilliance. Created by Arthur Drexler, MOMA's director of the department of architecture and design, with Historian Thomas Mines, the exhibit is engagingly mounted in a Neutra-esque sequence of spaces, which vary in size to suit the displays and in the hues of their gray walls to suit their mood...
...screens shows a colorful cutaway drawing of a house. Wondering how to make your home energy-efficient? Just touch the attic, for example, and watch a demonstration of how to insulate it. According to Emmett Cunningham of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the genial director of the exhibit, "It's the best and most durable public information system I've seen in 25 years in the exposition business...
...hours a day are given to priory work. Back in the 1950s, this usually meant looking after the cows on the priory farm. Today the brothers sustain Weston with more creative labors. One brother is a potter whose work is on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian. Another, a bookbinder, specializes in restoring antique volumes. Several others are graphic artists. Environmental concerns have led some brothers to turn most of the priory's 300 acres into a tree farm...
...Martha's Vineyard directing a huge cast and crew-and one wayward mechanical shark-in Jaws. A 55-day shooting schedule ballooned to 155 days; the $4 million budget soared to $8 million. Studio executives were threatening to close down the film and put "Bruce," the shark, on exhibit as part of the Universal City tour. The crew was wavering daily between seasickness and shell shock. "It was almost Mutiny on the Bounty," Spielberg recalls, gleefully mixing his analogies, "with me tied to Moby Dick." But audiences responded to the film with the same question that Steven...
Hinckley did, however, exhibit considerable emotion on a tape, released as evidence last week, that he made at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., on New Year's Eve 1980. By then he had become infatuated with Foster after seeing Taxi Driver as many as 15 times. In the movie, a crazed cabbie, played by Robert De Niro, sets out to assassinate a presidential candidate in an attempt to impress a child prostitute, played by Foster. Hinckley so identified with the film's anti-hero that he bought an Army fatigue jacket and took to drinking peach...