Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts officials are hinting that the amnesty, together with the state's recent tax enforcement crackdown, may become a model for similar programs that are beginning to spring up across the country. Forty-two states have inquired about the amnesty's success, says Edgar A. McHale, assistant director of communications at the revenue department. He added that revenue officials have also been contacted by representatives of the House Ways and Means Committee, the City of New York, and even the Canadian Parliament...
...Bombaata, who is on a perilous adventure with the shorter (6 ft. 2 in.) but broader Conan, portrayed again with brutish authority by Celebrity Iron Pumper Arnold Schwarzenegger, 36. Also along for the fun and grunts in the film, now shooting in Mexico, is the Amazonian Zula, played by Model-Disco Star Grace Jones, 30. How does Wilt the Stilt feel about trading his hoop spiking for a spiked club? "I figure if I'm going to be a baddie, I better have something serious to back me up," he says. "I designed it myself. I might take...
SEEKING DIVORCE. From Rod Stewart, 39, mercurial British rocker (Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?) who has shown a penchant for young models: Alana Stewart, 37, actress and model; on the ground of "irreconcilable differences"; after five years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...Genius of Venice" is not merely a remarkable exhibition. It will be remembered as one of the great cultural events of the 1980s. It is a model of how to present high art to a wide public, despite the fact that, in this case, the public is English and has stayed away in droves. With such exhibitions, the Royal Academy, once despised by modernists, becomes as useful to the late 20th century as it ever was to the late 18th. -By Robert Hughes
...Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, gathered by Musicologist Robert Kimball, is a model of typography, design and scholarship. The oversize book can lie indolently on a piano, ready to recall the hits of four decades. Because shows are arranged in chronological order, the reader can watch Porter's growth from restless experimenter to self-assured master. Early on, the songwriter attempted to overturn the bromides of his epoch. When saccharine "Mammy" tunes permeated Broadway, he celebrated a black man who journeyed back to Tennessee only to miss "the great big tall skyscrapers/ And the elevated's roar...