Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winter, simultaneously making ice that will be stored in huge underground bunkers until sum mer, when it can be used to cool the structures without consuming electricity. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the architectural firm renowned for its skyscrapers, is constructing an energy-efficient cube-shaped building for Draper and Kramer in Chicago that features three sunlit atriums. Architect Gunnar Birkerts' 14-story IBM building in Detroit is black on its north and east sides, to absorb heat, and silver on its south and west sides, to reflect it. A combination of tilted windows and curved stainless steel windowsill reflectors bounce...
Switching frequencies from opera's Luciano Pavarotti (Sept. 24) to rock 'n' roll's The Who-subject of this week's cover story-is not too much to ask of a music editor. But add responsibility for editing major stories on the movies' Kramer vs. Kramer (Dec. 3), television's Mork (March 12), ballet's Gelsey Kirkland (May 1, 1978), and the job calls for Martha Duffy. As senior editor of TIME's Cinema, Music, Dance, Show Business, Television and Theater sections for the past five years, she is in effect...
...Kramer vs. Kramer-- The media rabble hails this as the best film of the decade. It's dramatic, moving, charming, honest, well-acted, and well-written--great. But God's gift to moviegoers? Scroogle...
...Kramer is an adaptation of one of those best-selling, touching novels that appeared a few years ago. Stunningly beautiful Meryl Streep plays Joanna Kramer, who walks out on a torturous eight-year marriage to her ad-man workaholic husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman) and her seven-year-old munchkin (Justin Henry). The divorce leaves Ted to mother his son, and for months he fails dismally; but after they establish poignant love, Joanna reappears and wants Billy back...
There is no sign of the actress in this voice, but it reveals a side of Meryl that her friends know well. She ducks formality whenever she can and prefers rolled-up jeans and canvas shoes to the sleek clothes she wears in Kramer. Sensitive to a variety of women's issues, she speaks forcefully about sexism in films and the need for new methods of male contraception...