Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Venturi, the man who launched architectural Postmodernism a quarter- century ago, is not exactly unsung: only a few of his living peers are better known, and none has been credited with more deeply influencing the way houses and cityscapes look. Still, Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, his wife and partner, feel chronically underappreciated. They have never got as much work as they might have: after almost 40 years as architects, much of that time as world-famous architects, Venturi and Scott Brown have built a few score buildings, many of those within driving distance of their office and none...
...bony, big-eyed, broad-mouthed face without envisioning him atop a tractor. He is athletic but not graceful, a meat-and-potatoes player who got ahead by hard work. Says ex-champion turned TV commentator Fred Stolle: "Grit and determination, they're his trademarks." Adds Stolle's broadcast partner Cliff Drysdale: "Courier is a bulldog...
Warren E. Pierson, a managing partner at the hotel, remembers Berry as a young...
Purged of moral compunctions, Tyson is what scholars of the blood sport call a pure fighter. This is atavistic manhood, stripped of all weapons but fists, guile and will. A man-beast-machine: hunter, warrior, conqueror, terminator. Even lover. The other guy in the ring is Tyson's partner -- a heavy date -- as well as an opponent; Iron Mike must find the man's rhythms, whims, indulgences, weak spots. A fight with Tyson at his physical and emotional peak is like a brisk courtship that ends in slaughter...
...enemy, the Soviet Union, has vanished. With the U.S. running a $41 billion trade deficit with Japan, the once deferential partner begins to look to some Americans like the new enemy. Pollster William Watts found that Americans rank the Japanese economic threat higher than the Russian military / threat. Says Watts: "People answer that personally: Do I have a greater chance of being nuked by the Russians or of losing my job? On that basis, I'd rank Japan higher...