Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Cleary said he had totally forgotten that this was his win number 200, a landmark in his 14-year career. "I was stupid, I suppose," he mused...
...test in a Dairy Queen on another planet, goes one section) and an imaginative use of technology: with a device called a Vocoder, she can speak and sing in chords. Anderson's unsettling imagery and aggressively minimalist music hardly make for relaxing listening, but United States is a landmark in the art of the '80s, a guided tour through a post-punk apocalypse led by an innocent at home whose sense of the ironic is the only sure road...
These days the director's job has become much tougher. Reason: stockholders and Government regulators, notably the Securities and Exchange Commission, have begun taking directors to task for failing to perform their duties properly. In a landmark decision last week, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that ten former directors of Trans Union, a railroad-equipment leasing company, were financially liable for selling their company too hastily in 1980. A lawsuit filed on behalf of 10,000 shareholders claimed that the directors spent just two hours considering a purchase offer of $55 a share, or $688 million in total, while...
...Real estate speculators have bought the building, says Ginsberg, and are trying to evict its occupants. The neighborhood, a center for low-income artists, is undergoing gentrification. So, perhaps, is Ginsberg. His earlier works were printed by small presses, notably City Lights Books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Beat Generation landmark in San Francisco. Now, for the first time, Ginsberg has an agent and a six-book contract with a major New York publisher...
...that confound his gestures toward the ideal. Jahn protests descriptions like "cheap" and "glitzy." "The materials look unusual, but they are not cheap," he says. "This is the type of building that takes time to digest and to understand." Indeed, the architect feels confident that he has designed a landmark. "Just wait 20 years," he grins. "Someone will try to replace the blue panels, and it won't be allowed...