Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential primary campaigns, high expectations can often be dangerous. The expectations have seldom been higher than last September, when the networks prepared to unveil four new weekly anthology series. The shows boasted big-name directors and writers (headed by Hollywood's ubiquitous mogul Steven Spielberg), harked back to fondly remembered series from TV's past, and promised liberation from the straitjacket of recurring characters and continuing story lines. If the anthology shows worked, it seemed, a programming revolution might be in the offing...
...high-tech doodads and joke furniture of today. The other is a reformist urge. When not fashioning playthings, designers turn grave, producing furniture and other objects that are neo- Puritan, high-minded. The severe geometries of Frank Lloyd Wright's turn- of- the-century interiors and Steven Holl's beautiful side chair (1984), for example, can have an almost oppressive sobriety. As playfulness alternates with the more austere, missionary vision, the American cultural personality seems like a preacher's child, frisky and slaphappy on Saturday night, dour and repentant Sunday morning. In the battle for America's aesthetic soul...
...most powerful boy in Hollywood without being a man of many faces. There is Steven Spielberg the Good: he directs terrific pictures with sentiment and smarts. There is Steven the Strong: he godfathers Spielberg-style films that soar (Back to the Future) more often than they flop (Young Sherlock Holmes). But from the geriatric elite of Hollywood, Spielberg got no respect--no Oscars, that is. So here comes Steven the Nice, with his first "respectable" motion picture, an adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Color Purple. It bears the same relation to his more personal films that...
...knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating her. Everyone seems reluctant to let loose here, taking a cue from their too reverent boss. Perhaps The Color Purple demanded a cannier, more daring director: Steven Spielberg. The Good...
...MARRIED. Steven Spielberg, 37, Hollywood supermogul (Young Sherlock Holmes, TV's Amazing Stories); and Amy Irving, 32, actress (Micki & Maude) and the mother of their six-month-old son Max; both for the first time; in Santa...