Word: loomings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While few critics dispute Roche Dinkeloo's technical ingenuity and aesthetic daring, some charge the firm with a bent for a dehumanizing bigness. Some of its glassy towers-the Worcester (Mass.) County National Bank, for instance-loom large indeed. But while many big new buildings, in the name of progress, merely take, Roche's buildings give-pleasant plazas or little parks and improved working conditions. Union Carbide's complex is only four stories high. Conoco, near Houston, consists of three-story buildings clustered around an artificial lake. General Foods, in Rye, N.Y., in harmony with surrounding residential...
Although no plans for filming Dutch Shea, Jr. loom on the immediate horizon, such an action-filled novel would appear a good basis for a detective film. But while Dunne obviously enjoys working on screenplays, he worries that his novels lose much in the transition from print to film. The process involves boiling a 300-plus page novel down to about 120 pages for almost two hours of film: to do this the author must simplify plot lines, remove minor characters and trust in his actors' abilities to convey the emotions written into the novel. The result may be radically...
...with envy, and he brings it to the Hamptons for some polishing up. He also brings his outline and all his notes. No other copy of the play exists (the xerox is "on the fritz"); he lives alone; no one else has read his incipient masterpiece. Maces and daggers loom ominously from the walls, Sidney's eyes begin to gleam, and again things seem obvious...
...Barnes, 28, admits to doing "kind of spacy designs. But in a time when kids are playing electronic games, we shouldn't be bringing back Argyle socks." Barnes, like Armani, designs her fabric, but goes so far as to weave a sample swatch on her own hand loom, whipping up wild combos of silk, cotton and wool. "I found that I could sell the wildest fabrics for men if the style wasn't outrageous," she says. Barnes has a flexible definition of outrageous: in her first collections, she used curved shoulder pads while removing the conventional shoulder seam...
Shaw won't be gloating throughout his speech, though. With the arrival of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations, cuts in both arts budgets loom large, along with, in Britain, calls from conservative politicians to move arts patronage back into the private sector. (In this country, Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman has daintily halved the NEA's budget.) As British culture becomes more and more commercialized and government resources dwindle, British artists and administrators will closely examine the arts scene in America, to see what happens to a culture overwhelmingly dependent on the private sector--corporate grants, individual...