Word: interiorize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important concerns to the public servants was the proposed creation of a Senior Executive Service of 9,200 federal managers who could be transferred from one agency to another and who would be paid according to merit. Ruth Van Cleve, an Interior Department employee, expressed a common concern that such executives might be subjected to political pressure if they wanted to keep their jobs or get more money. Carter said SES membership would be voluntary; if its members were not happy in their posts, they could return to their old categories with full legal protection. Besides, the new program...
...first new-generation plane that most Americans will fly will be the 767. Passengers may be disappointed that its interior is not a radical improvement over today's jets. True, a few creature comforts will be better. Six-footers will not risk cracking their heads on the door frames; the entry, at 6 ft. 2 in., will be two inches higher than the doorway of today's 707s or 727s. For passengers who are accustomed to high-density seating, the 767's economy section will convey a sense of spaciousness, because the seats will be arranged...
ONEELEMENT INTRINSIC to the Evans style is his awareness of and desire to give a dignity and significance to even the most commonplace. The view of the dilapidated interior of a sharecropper's shack is rendered with a clear rectilinear organization of forms and the delicate play of the patterns of natural light. There is no question of the respect Evans feels for his subjects; neither people nor objects are manipulated or abused. Diane Arbus clearly shares this same respect in her portraits of New York city eccentrics. In the portrait "Teenage Couple on Hudson Street, N.Y., 1963," the people...
MARRIED. Prince Michael of Kent, 36, handsome first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, whose diversions have included international bobsledding and fast cars; and Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, 33, an aristocratic Austrian interior designer; he for the first time, she for the second; in Vienna. Because his bride is a Roman Catholic (her first marriage was annulled), Prince Michael was obliged under the Act of Succession of 1700 to renounce his place as 16th in line to the British throne...
...uses cajolery, threats and his-and-her fox cloaks as he obsessively tries to transform his son-in-law into a proper husband. But the newlyweds insist on going their own comic way: secreting a poet's mad mother in one of the nursing homes, serving as interior decorators to a psychotherapist who conducts his sessions in coffins. When Sudah renounces art for yoga, embracing celibacy as well, Mara is demoted from wife to sister. Disgruntled, she continues to work on her magnum opus, a series of short stories on the theme: "How I Lost My Virginity"; they form...