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...receptionist remains-now promoted to the sales department-but the capital has grown apace with the headquarters, today located on the first floor of a 17th century palazzo in the heart of Milan. Frescoes cover the walls and ceiling of Armani's office, from which mythological characters gaze impassively at the modern furniture (including a couple of nifty long draftsman's desks designed by Armani), models, staff and assorted items of evolving wardrobe. Armani has positioned paneling and mirrors around the room so that the frescoes can claim his attention only from above. "In Florence, you would look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giorgio Armani: Suiting Up For Easy Street | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...Longfellow, et al.) resulted in part from the very thinness of the New England atmosphere, an under-stimulation that made introspection a sort of cultural resource. America today is so chaotically hyped, its air so thick with kinetic information and alarming images and television and drugs, that the steady gaze required for excellence is nearly impossible. The trendier victims retreat to sealed isolation tanks to float on salt water and try to calm down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Have We Abandoned Excellence? | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...instance, between a work like Mondrian's Composition with Line (Pier and Ocean), 1917, and Van Doesburg's Countercomposition V, 1924. One is a reduction of atmosphere and light, the twinkling and palpitation of reflections on the flat sheet of the northern sea that Mondrian used to gaze at, hour after hour, during his walks at Scheveningen; it is transparent and delicate, reaching stability through addition. By contrast, the Van Doesburg throws an almost physical blast of color from its surface; the tilted red square is both monumental and unstable, fierce in its intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Impersonal Best: On to Utopia | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Tell the two First by their gaze, half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Voices and Harmonies | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

After four hours of sleep back in Israel, we awoke to the first blizzard in Jerusalem in decades. All movement stopped. I could gaze out of my suite and see the stone buildings and wall of the gaze out of my suite and see the stone buildings and wall of the Old City of Jerusalem with the Mount of Olives behind in an eerie white blanket against a gray horizon. It was a spectacular scene, one of utter peace. But I hated to think how Aswan, which had never seen a blizzard, would react to a delay allegedly caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEARS OF UPHEAVAL | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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