Word: movers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seven years ago, on his 41st birthday, Philip Glass was driving a New York City taxicab. From the age of 17 he had worked as a hotel night clerk, an airport baggage loader, a crane operator in a steel mill, a furniture mover and a plumber, all the while pursuing his real vocation: composer. Glass, however, was not hoping to make a big score with a pop song or a Broadway show. Rather, he was that least salable commodity, a revolutionary avant- gardist...
...Wall Street analysts, helped drive down the prices of the networks' stocks until by last year, they were selling for 40% to 50% below what many experts thought was their true worth. Suddenly the broadcast companies started to look like bargains again, and the feeling spread that any mover and shaker with enough money and backing could stage an unfriendly takeover...
...what was all encompassing on the page would have been all confusing on the screen. To the rescue came two other former soldiers from the raj, Scriptwriter Ken Taylor and Sir Denis Forman, the chairman of Granada and the project's prime mover. Their no-nonsense solution was to chop up yard-length segments of wallpaper, pin them on the walls of a large room and sort out a chronological story line by writing an outline of events on each square. In the process, they preserved nearly all the equivocal situations and ragged-edged characters that are often more...
John Bonica, 67, onetime professional wrestler and a prime mover in establishing the study of pain as a science: "If I wasn't as busy as I am, I would be a completely disabled...
...design is perhaps the glass-sheathed escalator bank grafted onto the museum's north wall, overlooking the sculpture garden, which distantly recalls the glass escalator tube on the face of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. But whereas the Pompidou's tube is a mere people mover, MOMA's moving staircases work in a celebratory space, full of light and air. The view through the glass as one mounts and descends can only sharpen the pleasurable contrast between nature and culture that was the point of Philip Johnson's original garden design. The escalator bank is Pelli...