Word: postering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly not all of Bork's rulings come out conservative. He authored an opinion for a three-member panel that ordered the Washington, D.C., transit authority to allow an artist to rent display space in subway stations for a poster critical of Reagan. But have his principles sometimes shifted to serve his ideological preferences? In attacking a proposed civil rights law in 1963, he wrote that it would be regrettable if "justifiable abhorrence of racial discrimination ((should)) result in legislation by which the morals of the majority are self-righteously imposed upon a minority...
...copied from Florida deejays. "Sure! Just look at that title, Born in the U.S.A.!" Even here, though, things are not quite as clear as they seem. In the ex-soldier's spacious home off once splendorous Fifth Avenue, a picture of Che Guevara stares across at an equally large poster of Barry Manilow. Downtown in central Havana, a 15-year-old schoolgirl goes him one better. On top of her dresser she has carefully fashioned a collage of her three great heroes: Michael Jackson, Jesus and Che. Thus the unlikely eclecticism of Cuba's revolutionary experiment...
Then, in the '70s, "the avant-garde became part of the mainstream," as Yokoo puts it, and he got plenty of work again. His sexy, creepy 1980 poster for a fashion show is typical of his more recent, dreamier work: a naked, bleached-out man and woman stand face to face against a yellow field, their eyes and ears an odd, coppery red. In 1982, with his "sense of crisis missing," Yokoo doubled back, leaving full-time design work to become a painter once again...
Makoto Saito, 35, aspires to an elegant and disconcerting sort of T.S. Eliot modernism. He wants his graphics, he says, to be "visually simple but technically complex." A 1985 poster for a company that makes Buddhist religious articles, for instance, features a high-resolution close-up of a human bone, drenched in dark powder and standing all alone and upright against a white background. In small letters at the bottom is the Zen koan-like non- slogan: "I am an ancestor of the future...
...chalk players, however, think the post will go to either. Far more likely is someone like Muti (whose festival poster had him clad in a black leather jacket, a la Karajan in his race-car days), or James Levine, who is cutting back his administrative duties at the Metropolitan Opera to expand his repertory. Certainly Levine's reputation has flourished in Salzburg in recent years. This season he is supervising an elegant The Marriage of Figaro, in substantially the same staging as Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's New York and Paris versions, and a daring new production of Arnold Schoenberg...