Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Encouraged by the warm reception she received during a visit to Hungary earlier this month, Britain's Thatcher was also intent on improving relations with the Soviet Union. In her meeting with the leadership, she managed to strike a subtle balance between the stiffly formal Kremlin protocol and the more relaxed style of Western diplomatic gestures. TIME has learned that Thatcher, in consultation with Washington, hopes to expand bilateral meetings between East-bloc and Western foreign ministers in order to lay the groundwork for a possible superpower summit along the lines of the 1974 meeting between President Gerald Ford...
Locked away in downtown Rio's Praça Mauá jail, Firmenich now awaits formal extradition proceedings that would return him to the country where, during the 1970s, his crimes helped to create a decade of bloody turmoil and an eventual military dictatorship...
Last week Firmenich finally received his formal reply...
...built to stand apart from the city's commercial bustle. The first modern museum to break the pattern was, appropriately enough, New York City's Museum of Modern Art, which in 1939 built its first new home in the heart of downtown. While the old museums featured formal, skylit rooms, MOMA presented its art on open, loftlike floors that could be partitioned or rearranged like stage sets. MOMA, now topped by Architect Cesar Pelli's 52-story, income-producing condominium tower, remains a handsomely modest structure. It was followed, however, by a veritable binge of architectural experimentation...
Spence's appointment comes after reports that he was actually Bok's second choice after someone else turned down the job. Bok, in an interview before the formal announcement, refused to comment on the speculation...