Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mayor Tom Bradley -- for his community involvement. The entrepreneur coached a local softball team, campaigned against alcohol abuse and spoke out against the use of drugs. Indeed, the charge of drug-money laundering was especially strange, since he had asked his employees to take drug tests and adopted the motto "My act is clean, how's yours...
...third great architecture exhibition, the Interbau of 1957, was the high-water mark of this slightly mad, modern abstractionism, and the first such exhibition that produced a thicket of real buildings. "Planning for the City of Tomorrow" was the theme, and the results were as blandly anodyne as the motto suggests. A whole section of the city was turned into an urban- renewal proving ground, an amorphous campus where highly evolved notions of citified density were abandoned: each forgettable high-rise was an isolated Objekt plopped in sunny isolation on a lawn...
Already a consummate host famed for his megaparties, Malcolm Forbes, 67, last week managed to top even himself. The publishing tycoon pulled out all the stops at his 75-acre estate in Far Hills, N.J., for the 70th birthday of Forbes magazine, which sports the motto "Capitalist Tool." At dusk 100 bagpipers marched from the hills toward a 13-ft. by 20-ft. replica of a Scottish castle floodlighted and surrounded by artificial fog -- and that was just the dinner announcement. Then some 1,100 VIP guests -- including Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Kissinger, Barbara Walters, Jerry Hall and Tom Brokaw -- dined...
...Berg is a second-generation "king of the claimers," whose father Marion lived by the dry motto "We make our living out of other people's mistakes." In pure numbers of victories, the son has logged eight national training championships, including in 1986. But of late the cheaper achievements have meant less to him than the classic challenges. Van Berg wept last week for his special horse and for his late father. "There's no feeling in the world," he murmured, "like winning the Kentucky Derby...
...John Milius. When a movie features contributions by people whose previous work includes Red Dawn, Rambo, First Blood Part 2 and Streets Of Fire, the emerging world-view would have to be a little skewed. Skewed, however, does not even come close to describing the world of Extreme. The motto here is not "liberty and justice for all," but "we didn't hurt him none, we just roughed...