Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who work for him, Adnan Khashoggi is not a constellation but the very center of a mysterious and splendiferous universe. His is a dazzling and ostentatious realm of luxury beyond the dreams of Croesus, a shadowy sphere of deals, arms brokering and billion-dollar investments. But with Khashoggi's well-publicized role as the middleman in America's arms-for-hostages deals with Iran, light has been cast on the sometimes shaky financial state of his private and public dealings. Like the arms sales to Iran, several of his recent investments have been ill-conceived, botched deals...
Quoting the French philospoher Rousseau, Lloyd said that "Plato had abolished the feminine sphere and that actually men and women differ in mind...
Their efforts produced some stunning footage for Lucasfilm, including a 37- second hologram of a planet floating in space in Return of the Jedi. There was also a memorable one-minute sequence in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan of a barren, moonlike sphere being transformed into a living planet, complete with computer-generated mountains, oceans and blue-green atmospheric haze. But in the end, even Lucas balked at the cost. "I don't want to be in the R.-and- D. business," he said earlier this year. "It's just too time consuming and expensive." Enter Jobs...
...blip that coincided with the fruitful first few years of the Werkstatte. Hoffmann, Moser and its other founders, repelled by the residual fairy-tale flourishes of aging Jugendstil (literally, Youth Style, the German Art Nouveau), sloughed off applied ornament and embraced elemental geometries -- the right angle, the circle, the sphere. In his thoughtful, gracefully written catalog for MOMA, Adjunct Curator Kirk Varnadoe says that Moser and Hoffmann were out "to recover richness from reduction." The result, briefly, was a deluxe austerity, furniture and objects stripped down and spare but still eager to delight. Only in Vienna: gemutlich modernism...
...Soviet science will not be backward because it is under controlled systems," Oettinger said. He said the Soviet Union's increasing emphasis on technology development could foster democracy because "it will enlarge the sphere of those people who will be consulted in making decisions...