Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together last Christmas for neighbors and friends. In March he attended a farewell party for a Japanese journalist and his wife with whom the Norths had become friends after selling them a puppy. He seems to be relishing the time at home with his three children and Max, the family's Labrador retriever. Like any suburban dad on a weekend, he can be seen cutting the grass and barbecuing in the backyard. During the day his wife Betsy keeps the kitchen television tuned to the Iran-contra hearings...
...incandescent canvases were as much a part of the psychedelic '60s as Beatles music. Then, at the peak of his popularity in 1970, Artist Peter Max vanished from the international art scene and devoted the next 16 years to painterly experimentation and travel. But now Max is back. At Manhattan's Jack gallery last week, the Berlin-born artist opened a show of 30 gaily colored paintings and graphics under the rubric "Peter Max Celebrates America." Cheap the artist is not: his works on various patriotic themes are selling for anywhere from $12,000 to $50,000. So has Max...
John Updike, on whose lovely, wicked novel this film is based, is alert to the minutest shifts in a suburbanite's emotional barometer. George Miller, director of the wondrously violent Mad Max movies, sneezes and blows a typhoon. At first it seems a mix of two unsuited masters. And anyone who comes to The Witches of Eastwick expecting a Masterpiece Theatre adaptation will be disappointed, not to say grossed out. Alex wakes up in a bed of snakes; puke spumes as if from a seasick sewer pipe. No problem. Miller and Michael Cristofer have simply chosen to tell the story...
...computer buffs at ease with the graphic virtuosity of Max Headroom, the FAA demonstration might seem primitive. But to air-traffic professionals gathered in the agency's sixth-floor "war room," it represented a technological breakthrough. Prior to last week, FAA radar data showing the location of planes flying over the U.S. could be shown only piecemeal on computer screens at one or more of the aviation agency's 20 regional control centers. Now, all that information has been merged and displayed on a single cathode-ray screen, giving the nation's air-traffic controllers an unprecedented view of overhead...
Other officials, who performed capably and honestly in office, were capsized by matters they had been involved in before taking office. J. Lynn Helms, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, resigned after it was disclosed that grand juries and federal agencies were probing some of his past business ventures. Max Hugel, deputy director for operations at the CIA, quit after allegations by two stockbrokers of improper securities dealings...