Word: langdon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fine-art practitioners had to scramble for a way to distinguish themselves from the mobs of snapshooters. Their response was pictorialism, an international style of soft focus, poetic yearnings and darkroom tricks that were beyond the abilities of the untrained. During the pictorialist phase of their careers, Alvin Langdon Coburn in England and Edward Steichen in the U.S. turned away from mere realism toward a metaphysical art, one of broad hazy forms that hinted at an elusive realm of ideas and spirit...
...Langdon's findings were never made public. When Senators reviewed the report last March at a hearing of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the recommendations for enforcement action had been deleted. Also missing were critical comments about Continental's management, the company's strike problems and the shortage of personnel. Expunged were Langdon's criticisms of lax enforcement of regulations by Western Pacific regional officials of the FAA. Whole pages and key paragraphs had disappeared, but some words had been added. "Continental Airlines personnel and management remained cooperative" was changed to "Continental Airlines personnel and management were very cooperative...
...Langdon, who has since retired, wrote to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole protesting what he called a "cover-up." Dole did not respond, but FAA Chief Donald Engen says "there is no basis in fact for what Mr. Langdon states . . . When you get down to it, you find it to be a labor-management issue...
...hired by Continental. These include Clark Onstad, the FAA's onetime chief counsel, now Continental's vice president of governmental affairs in Washington, and Dewey Roark, the FAA regulations attorney who became a legal consultant to Continental in March 1984 and helped draft the airline's rebuttal to the Langdon report...
...empires were born: McDonald's, Tastee Freez, Jack-in-the-Box, Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts, Mister Donut, Pizza Hut, Burger Chef. The architecture that resulted was a sort of Sunbelt peasant modernism, simple constructivist cartoons in steel and glass, designed to catch the attention at highway speeds. Usually, as Langdon says, it was a case of "form faking function." Cosmetic A-frames were slapped onto plain boxes; McDonald's golden arches never supported anything. The "modernism" of the fast-food stands was superficial set design, not unlike today's putatively "postmodern" shopping- mall facades...