Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie brings homelessness home by presenting it not as a cause for charity but as a recognizable human misfortune, almost inevitable given the circumstances. Grant's direction is both sensitive and street-smart (filming was done in Pittsburgh). Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic...
...complacency. "When it's over, maybe I'll sit - down and say, 'Gee, we did something pretty terrific,' " he says. "But it's just not my nature." "He doesn't really accept compliments," says his son Kevin, a student at Notre Dame law school. When Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 45-7 in October, Kevin called to congratulate him. What did Dad say in reply? "Kevin, did you see that S.M.U...
...going to Pittsburgh to spend time with my girlfriend's family," said Anthony C. Shen '92. "And her, of course," he added...
...trained killer, and you can't keep that up," Eisenman, 57, says today. "Peter Eisenman is ultimately a friendlier person -- kinder, gentler. People are going to like my buildings more." In fact, he suddenly has lots of plum commissions -- an office building in Tokyo, a research complex at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, the Columbus convention center. Meanwhile, he will bask this week in the celebrations surrounding the dedication of his first major building, the $43 million Wexner Center for the Visual Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus...
...deadpanned nonstop alliterations into the phone as he promoted an employee ("I'm putting you in charge of Pittsburgh, Peter!") and closed a contract ("Dick, what's the deal with the deal?"). The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere. Last week it was rated the best ad of the 1980s in a Top Ten list compiled by the One Club, an industry group...