Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change. Most likely in January, the show that was too good to clone will, at long last, produce an offspring. The second edition of 60 Minutes, expected to air on Tuesday or Wednesday night, has been created despite the very public opposition of Hewitt (who called it "a terrible idea") and most of his veteran 60 Minutes colleagues. He has now grudgingly acceded to what was probably an inevitability all along, agreeing to serve as a consultant on the new show, but only, he says, "when it doesn't take me away from the one and only, true and honest...
...other volumes." And at the very end of the book, he warned that his work "needs to be amply discussed and tested" in the fields of biology and cognitive science before it is put into practice. "We are not yet certain," he said, "of the goodness of the idea of multiple intelligences...
...Gardner proceeds to pose the "crucial educational question": Can we use knowledge about individual strengths to convey the "core notions" of a subject? One expects Gardner to answer this question, using illustrations from his two topics. Instead, he goes off into generalities. The reader is left with no idea of how Gardner would, say, use students' interpersonal gifts to teach them the core mathematical principles of genetics...
...arts show for American TV. That's something Botwick had wanted to do for a long time, and he and Tong proposed such a series to Leslie Moonves, the head of CBS Television. CBS has a new strategy of trying to appeal to young men, and Moonves liked the idea. He ordered up a pilot, collapsing the development process, which usually takes months, into seven weeks...
...nearest relation, though, is architecture. Through a gap in the wall, you can walk into each of Serra's Torqued Ellipses and contemplate its interior space. Serra got the idea from a Baroque church in Rome: Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, whose plan is a quatrefoil stretched to a near ellipse. Standing in it, Serra wondered, "What if I turn this form on itself?" But the closest architectural sibling of these new sculptures is the work of Serra's friend Frank Gehry, the designer of the spectacular Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, with its freely twisted...