Word: steels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oral Roberts was fasting in his Tulsa Prayer Tower, a 200-ft.-tall glass- and-steel spire on the Oral Roberts University campus, and still awaiting this week's life-threatening deadline, despite a surprise stay of execution -- a gift of $1.3 million from Jerry Collins, a short, gruff dog-track owner from Sarasota, Fla. ("It's very seldom I ever go to church," said the philanthropic Collins. "I help them all.") Roberts, feeling perkier after the donation, proclaimed Bakker a "prophet of God," who had been victimized by an "unholy trio of forces," presumably referring to Swaggart, the Assemblies...
...should be the great enemies of Romance." The pleated, diagonally stressed, armored precision of Lewis' paintings, as grand in their own way as Fernand Leger's, testifies to this -- in A Battery Shelled, 1919, even the smoke is metal. "I look upon Nature, while I live in a steel city," exclaimed David Bomberg in 1914, and the terse machine-like signs he found for briskly moving figures in The Mud Bath, his early masterpiece of 1912-13, have a tonic decisiveness that is only magnified by the simple color scheme of red, white and blue...
...inverted cone, the rough concrete pillars, the swooping concrete shell. The details have a light touch; the forms are blessedly simple. Tange's best designs embody heavenward sweep, a figurative and literal uplift. The central feature of a printing plant in Numazu (1954) is a great set of steel trusses, a wing- like cantilever from which the factory's glass walls hang. It is one of the more elegant postwar industrial buildings. St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo is a kind of Gothic abstraction, two enormous concrete shells sandwiched together and suspended from above, covered in an acre of stainless...
...desire around the country for candidates who could make Government work, for defining some Government roles. It was flowing from parts of the country where people began thinking, 'Hey, we need something from Government after all.' It was coming primarily from areas dependent on mining, timber, agriculture, energy, textiles, steel. They stopped thinking of Government as something that just took care of muggers and Detroit welfare mothers, the whole conservative rhetorical syndrome...
...freezing and windy in Washington last week, but that did not stop hundreds of LTV retirees from rallying at the Capitol. They were demonstrating to save their medical- and life-insurance benefits, which the steel and defense company canceled when it went into bankruptcy proceedings last July. Although the benefits were restored by the bankruptcy court and Congress passed a measure last October that extended the benefits, that protection expires on May 15, and the retirees are lobbying the lawmakers to give them permanent insurance coverage. Congress is considering legislation that would require all bankrupt firms to get court approval...