Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first weeks of the strike called by the 3,000 members of the Writers Guild of America against movie and television producers and the three major networks, both sides assumed the bemused air of adversaries in a genteel farce. Executives at Disney studios provided storage for picket signs in their conference room. Some writers reported to the picket line outfitted by Gucci and Cardin. One rain-shy striker arrived outside 20th Century-Fox and defiantly lofted his picket sign through the slightly open window of his Rolls-Royce...
John Barnes's design for a sign system for Widener is also a center of attention. Its components are described on the bottom floor of the Center along with an exhibit of letterings and materials. Of the other works, Couper Gardiner's controlled abstractions are attractive, as is Jon Rikert's Lipchitzian sculpture...
...Florida's Sun City retirement community near Tampa, a street sign warns motorists: DRIVE SLOWLY, GRANDPARENTS PLAYING. They are indeed-in ways that their children can scarcely imagine. In Sun City, as well as in other places across the nation, elderly people in growing numbers are having emotionally close, long-term affairs. Young people prefer to think of their parents and grandparents as old moralists, says Unitarian Minister Richard Boeke of St. Petersburg. In fact, he asserts, many of the aged are still looking for sex and romance...
...month, eight-hour-a-day course this fall. Perot says he prefers clean-cut ex-Navymen like himself. "I want people to identify with me, to create a closely knit team, rather than the lone wolves that characterize Wall Street," he says. Every duPont graduate has to sign a definitive employment contract that constrains him from leaving the firm for at least a year. But Perot can freely fire those employees who stray from the code of the pack...
...being stuck with an unresponsive program. But at her best-as in That's all or the large and visually splendid Today's Special-she can give her apparently explicit light-sculptures an intense mystery, transforming the gallery space into a small Delos of the neon sign...