Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking ahead to future productions, Golan announced the signing, on a Carlton Hotel napkin, of aging Enfant Terrible Jean-Luc Godard to direct a modern version of King Lear in Hollywood, perhaps with Marlon Brando as Lear and Woody Allen as the fool. (No, Golan admitted, the two stars had not even been approached to appear in the film -- but then again, they hadn't said no.) In any case, Godard by now should be accustomed to negative responses. His new film, a handsome, typically perverse antidrama called Detective, was booed at ; its gala screening, and as he was about...
...elemental Einstein was Glass's breakthrough, the gentle, serene Satyagraha was the first major work of his mature style. By poignantly transforming a flute line from the second scene into Gandhi's eloquent apostrophe to freedom at the end, Glass created one of the most powerful moments in modern opera. The melody is simplicity itself -- a scale consisting of the tones from E to E on the white notes of a piano, repeated 36 times -- but the purity of its calm resolve has the effect of an emotional tidal wave...
...pioneer of the elegant, functional Scandinavian look; of a heart attack; in Esbo, Finland. Combining a hands-on knowledge of industrial production techniques, a sculptor's sensibility and a craftsman's intimate familiarity with his media, he was, in the view of many critics, the pre- eminent modern maker of such objects as vases, cutlery and glassware (including the distinctive frosted Finlandia vodka bottle...
...unusually long honeymoon with the business community, as well as with liberals and the press. He did away with Philadelphia's old-fashioned mercantile tax, which in effect imposed a sales tax on city goods no matter where they were sold, and replaced it with a more modern tax on corporate earnings. He helped create the current building boom downtown, where some 6 million sq. ft. of new office space is under construction. Says Ralph Widner, executive director of an association of Philadelphia's chief executive officers: "For the first time in 20 years, there is a warm, close partnership...
...different kind of savings institution emerged with the founding of the Oxford-Provident Building Association in Frankford, Pa. This forerunner of the modern savings and loan was created to give loans for home building. Over the years, the two types of thrift institutions -- savings banks and savings and loan associations -- became very similar, and both pursued the same primary goals: catering to small depositors and granting home mortgages. Commercial banks concentrated on business lending and had the legal power to make a broader range of investments, from oil ventures to foreign loans...