Word: legos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mall of America, opening in Bloomington, Minn., this week, will pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
Some describe the Sackler Museum, down Quincy Street from the Carpenter Center, as a glorified Lego set. Its stripes were originally supposed to be pink and green to match the roof tiles of nearby Memorial Hall. But since pink and green bricks weren't structurally sound enough, the University had to settle on its second choices, orange and gray. Harvard planned to build a footbridge across Broadway, connecting the Sackler and the Fogg. But Cambridge residents Protested, saying the bridge would divide the city...
...movies and decided they were about spiritual uplift made easy. If the picture in fact turns out to be a hit, Midler may be miserable, but the suits will be happy. It will prove to them that films needn't be written; they can be assembled like Lego blocks. To others it will prove that moviemaking has become a sort of limbo dance: the lower you go, the higher you score...
...sense may dictate that executives are rewarded for successes and punished for failures, corporate America stands such logic on its head. Company profits declined for the third consecutive year in 1991, plunging 19%. But CEO pay increased 6%, not counting bonuses and long-term incentives. Westinghouse Electric CEO Paul Lego took a 69% pay cut when his bonus for '91 was eliminated. But he was awarded 700,000 shares in options, with a present- day value of $4.1 million, even though the company lost $1.1 billion last year. Counting the options, Lego actually received a 41% increase in compensation...
...these effects are like Lego blocks compared with the task confronting < ILM now: Spielberg's Jurassic Park, from the Michael Crichton best seller about dinosaurs roaming through a modern theme park. The mammoth mechanized beasts being assembled at Stan Winston Studio in Van Nuys, Calif., will be filmed, broken down into computer code and inserted onto the live-action frame to interact with the humans. Spielberg's requirements for absolute movie realism will mean a 21st century marriage between the modelmaking Gepettos in Los Angeles and the video futurists in San Rafael. One ILM animator says the challenge...