Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum exhibition, so the spotlights are on individual achievements: the sensuousness of Milles' bronze model for Europa and the Bull (depicting Europa as a perplexed Lolita, although she is grown up in the full-scale sculpture); the bold, glazed vases of Maija Grotell; the assertive, colorful fabric designs of Strengell. Most prominent in the show is the best-known achievement of Cranbrook: the furniture and interior design by the Saarinens, the Eameses, Bertoia, Florence Schust Knoll and others. One exhibit replicates a typical mid-century office. Designed by Florence Knoll, it combines the work of Cranbrook creators into...
...that is all one buyer could see in the wondrous fall of Miyake's fabric and the eye-dazzling depths of his layering, two things become apparent: she should not have been buying his clothes at all, and, surely, she will not be buying them well, simply because she does not understand them. But all designers are subject to such whims, and the public pays for them. Customers cannot shop in showrooms. They must rely on stores, whether run by conglomerates or a single entrepreneur, and on the taste of the buyers. No one doubts the profitability of such...
...some very healthy signs that concern for schools and school improvement is becoming part of the fabric around here," says Senior Lecturer Roland S. Barth. Barth directed a 1979 study of the Ed School which criticized the school for cutting its teacher certification program in 1973 as well as its programs for certifying principals and superintendents...
...there are also different lands of occasions, when distance distorts. Jackson's enforced isolation is partly show-biz savvy and partly an attempt to preserve intact the fabric of his fantasy life. Inevitably, there are breaches. "You know, everybody thinks you're gay," Vocal Coach Seth Riggs told him one day during a break in a vocal lesson. "I know," Jackson laughed. "The other day a big, tall, blond, nice-looking fellow came up to me and said, 'Gee, Michael, I think you're wonderful. I sure would like to go to bed with you.' I looked...
...studying Jerusalem's needs instead of international-style manifestoes to fashion their own city rather than another Brasilia. Heeding Historian Lewis Mumford's advice, they looked not to Baron Haussmann, who in the mid-19th century modernized Paris by cutting boulevards through the city's medieval fabric, but to Isaiah 65: 19, 21: "And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people . .. and they shall build houses, and inhabit them...