Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photographer may release pictures into the world for years. He may even win a bit of fame in the process. But it can take a survey show to make his full intentions clear. The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston last week opened a welcome exhibition that does just that for Joel Sternfeld, whose images of Americans contesting with their landscape began appearing in the late 1970s. The exhibit, which runs in Houston through June 7 and later moves on to Detroit and Baltimore, binds Sternfeld's work into a whole. Pictures that were once compelling oddities are now linked...
Strange pictures: deadpan but not flippant, ironic but not campy. They ( used advanced elements of photographic language -- extreme distance from the subject, unemphatic treatment, carefully achieved but understated color -- but to pose what questions? Not until the Houston show, assembled by Curator Anne W. Tucker, were Sternfeld's purposes really clear. The title American Prospects, which applies to both the show and an accompanying volume of his work (Times Books; $40), points to Sternfeld's ambition for his work to be placed in the line of two other great photo essays on the national mood: Walker Evans' American Photographs...
...choice only after frantic, repeated efforts to reach a settlement with Pennzoil produced no results. Within hours following the Supreme Court's ruling, Texaco Chairman Alfred DeCrane, 55, and Chief Executive James Kinnear, 59, flew with a battery of lawyers from White Plains to Pennzoil's home city of Houston. But Pennzoil's combative chairman, J. Hugh Liedtke, 65, who has stayed on past retirement age to fight the case, steadfastly refused at least ten settlement offers from Texaco. At the start of the talks, Texaco apparently had a figure of $500 million in mind, but Pennzoil was believed...
...lawyers quickly sought relief in a federal court in White Plains, N.Y. The judge ruled in January 1986 that Texaco's bond must be reduced to a more reasonable $1 billion. That gave the company some breathing space to file appeals, and the scene of battle returned to Houston, where much of the public was rooting for the hometown company against New York-based Texaco. Pennzoil Attorney Joseph Jamail was already becoming a folk hero there for jousting with the giant firm...
...company's legal team, led by David Boies of Manhattan-based Cravath, Swaine & Moore, obtained a temporary restraining order in Texas that barred Pennzoil from making any moves to seize Texaco's assets. Meanwhile, Kinnear called Pennzoil's Liedtke and asked for a face-to-face meeting in Houston. Liedtke agreed...