Word: slenderness
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Again, passengers boarded a jetliner, strapped themselves in and prepared to set course for a holiday resort. Once again, the seat configuration had been modified to hold more passengers. Almost every seat was taken. Beyond a few slender details, the tragedies of British Airtours Flight KT 328 and Japan Air Lines Flight 123 have little in common. But last week's air disaster at Manchester International Airport, in the north of England, coming just ten days after the crash of the JAL jumbo jet, had a numbingly familiar ring: the reports of panicked passengers screaming for help, a plane with...
...first base open, New York Mets Manager Davey Johnson is at the mound telling Gooden to walk Pedro Guerrero, who earlier hit a home run. Mapping tactics with the infielders, Johnson has scarcely a word for Gooden, the 6-ft. 3-in. centerpiece of the team. He is a slender stalk from Florida, a righthander. Even in repose, the impression of him is mostly arms and legs. As long ago as last November, he was a teenager...
...then bent by hand. There are only a few hundred neon artisans left in the country, and their average age is 50. Now, however, a dozen schools have opened to train newcomers. Architects are turning to neon to ornament postmodern designs, especially by tracing structural shapes and highlighting details. Slender ribs of blue neon provide elegant illumination for the walkway of a building in New York City's financial district. Uptown, Steven Panzarino, a New York City architect, is using neon for elevator indicator lights, recessed into the walls of a lobby. Says he: "We use it to enhance colors...
World-renowned architect Minoru Yamasaki used his designs for William James Hail, built in 1963, as a testing ground for his World Trade Towers in New York City. Although the 15-story edifice has been praised for its slender beauty, a 1973 survey of Cambridge architecture called it a sore thumb in its current location...
Variations on that theme are heard throughout a land divided by its memory. On a ferry from My Tho to Ben Tre, a slender man in his 40s tells TIME Photographer Dirck Halstead about his training in New Mexico for the South Vietnamese army. Now, he says, he works on a collective farm, digging ditches and planting crops. Is his life better? "I think it is better now," he says, his eyes darting nervously toward the other passengers. Then, lowering his voice, he confesses that it is worse. "Everyone is so poor. The former regime was no good, I know...