Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allows a measure of classicist calm to seep into his work, he may no longer be written off as an idiosyncratic California bad boy. Gehry must be regarded as one of the two or three most important members of the late-modernist generation -- and maybe the most successful formal innovator...
Whatever the appearances, one Vatican official insists, "the Holy See does not have a fixation on the United States." Indeed, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Vatican doctrinal office, having dispensed with Curran, faces no other imminent decisions in the U.S., and two weeks ago turned toward Europe, issuing a formal rebuke of a theologian in the Netherlands, Edward Schillebeeckx. His offense: proposing that lay Catholics could celebrate Mass in unusual situations...
Under Rehnquist, the court already seems friendlier and more collegial in tone. Many at the court considered the former Chief manipulative, believing, for example, that he assigned opinions in dreary cases to Justices as punishment. Rehnquist is less formal and bureaucratic than his predecessor, and "doesn't take himself that seriously," says a former clerk. In the conferences, where Justices announce their intended votes and reasons, the Chief describes each case briefly and gives his views first. Burger sometimes rambled on and lost his place. Rehnquist is expected to state the issues more sharply and succinctly. The discussion will...
...blue light-dappled water of his Los Angeles pool, an allee of chestnut trees or a green spindly iron chair with pigeons in ) the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris -- and shoot away: click-zip, left-right, up- down, frame after frame, more like a hen pecking than a formal photographer composing, an accumulation of nervous little details, splinters and shards. He would deal out the images, dozens or hundreds of them, on the studio floor and begin assembling. "There are a hundred separate looks across time," Hockney claimed in Cameraworks, a 1984 book on his photocollages, "from which I synthesize...
...formal program, including a concert by the Atlanta Symphony, launched the nation's eighth repository of presidential papers. Much of Carter's energy since he left the White House has gone into planning the center, raising money to fund it ("humiliating," he complained) and donning a hard hat to oversee the construction with his characteristic attention to detail. The 130,000-sq.- ft. interior houses a library of some 27 million presidential documents, a museum whose exhibits include electronic quizzes that let visitors play at making policy, and quarters for a think tank that, under the aegis of Emory University...