Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted me to be a lawyer, so we compromised on an occupation that supposedly combines professionalism with creativity-that of architect." An Australian, Hughes enrolled in the University of Sydney and, as he tells it, received training that "was totally useless for someone who really wanted to be a local parody of Willem de Kooning." Quitting the five-year program after four years, Hughes still retained a deep interest in the art he discusses in this week's cover story on American architecture...
...funeral procession for two left-wing Alevi teachers who had been gunned down by unknown assailants. A throng of 3,000 right-wing demonstrators blocked the procession's route. In the fighting that followed, three Sunnis were killed. Then the Sunnis began looting, burning and killing. Local R.P.P. deputies frantically cabled Premier Ecevit that "under an R.P.P government even our own people cannot be sure of protection in our headquarters...
...pirouette over gas policy is a result of a key provision in the energy act. Before it passed, gas that was drilled and consumed in the same state was exempt from federal price controls and therefore could be sold locally at a higher price than if it had been bought in another state. As a result, even during the severe gas shortages of recent winters, a few producer states such as Texas and Louisiana had more gas on hand than they knew what to do with. The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates gas within the state, has kept...
...innovative approach would be for multinationals to set up outposts in developing lands that would be 51% or more owned by local people or governments. Giving them a majority stake would diminish the danger of expropriation. Sperry has set up such joint ventures in many countries, and it has learned that to demand majority ownership is, in Lyet's words, "a very outdated, obtuse approach." If a company supplies the technology and the marketing expertness, it has effective control even if it does not own most of the stock...
...latest book, The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977), Jencks complains that "any building with funny kinks in it, or sensuous imagery" has come to be labeled Post-Modern, and suggests that the term should be restricted to hybrid, "impure" buildings that are designed around historical memory, local context, metaphor, spatial ambiguity and an intense concern with architectural linguistics. That, obviously, excludes the glass-cliff builders like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Minoru Yamasaki of the World Trade Center, or spokesmen of cultural grandeur like I.M. Pei. Indeed, given the architecture Americans have had for 40 years, such a description virtually...