Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once again, the American people will be treated to that multimedia extravaganza inevitably billed--in the manner of a professional wrestling match--as a "Superpower Summit." The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union will take advantage of numerous photo opportunities before heading to a small cottage for a brief meeting of the minds. They'd better bring some No Doz; summits have proven to be boring, uneventful and ultimately useless...
...perhaps the most extensive media attention, so victims can charge far more in case of their death--to be paid to their estates of course. Reporters love to surround parents who have had children recently slain, probing the emotional impact of the story in a sensitive yet hard-hitting manner...
...Prize last year, as well as the respect of young architects all over the world. Maki, an architect who has lived and worked in the U.S., thinks this is unquestionably the Japanese moment. Given the "exceedingly high level of our craftsmanship and technology" and the "current flowering of all manner of architectural ideas in Japan," Maki says, "Japan is the place to watch in architecture today...
...figure among Japan's baby-boomer architects. Combative, ascetic, a radical traditionalist, he is the perfect maverick: after wandering across the U.S. in the '60s, he aspired to a professional boxing career before becoming an architect. He is something of a Zen zealot. He hates "automated buildings with all manner of electronic convenience." He hates posh materials. "Concrete, far cheaper than marble, can achieve a far greater spiritual sense of wealth," he says. Indeed, most of his 90 buildings are constructed of concrete. Ando is thus maintaining a tradition: large-scale modern buildings in Japan were predominantly concrete until...
Design of consumer products, on the other hand, tends toward the conventional -- as it does in the U.S. In neither country are there industrial-design stars in the European manner, and the transpacific parallel is probably not coincidental. Says Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a professor of art at Tokyo University of Art and Design: "In the wake of World War II, we learned American culture through the designs of goods at PX's -- by way of lamps, shoes, clothing -- not through the English language." And often they learned the banal dialect of mass-market American design...