Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kahn, who often pads about his office in his socks, has an easy rapport with his top staff, which CAB critics agree is one of the sharpest in Washington. An outgoing man, Kahn has brought a new sense of style and unpredictability to the once stodgy agency. He has a passion for Gilbert and Sullivan, which he often indulged at Cornell by singing and prancing in student productions. His other obsession is clear English. Says he: "If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong." He admits that...
...many who were not−life palpably shifted gears. The Beatles quickly changed the face of popular culture: they soon helped transform fashions in everything from dress and manners to politics and sexuality. Certainly the upheavals of the '60s would have occurred without the Beatles, but the style of that chaotic era would not have been the same. The decade rocked, and at times exploded, to the Beatles' galvanizing beat...
...movie's slapstick escapades, it never turns into a Three Stooges picture. Director Robert Zemeckis' broad style frequently rises above silliness to be come a form of pop surrealism. The tip-off to his intentions occurs early on, when he shows us a mob of screaming girls grabbing up copies of Meet the Beatles in a store that stocks only Beatles albums. The scene is not faithful to reality but to our memories of that time. Such dreamlike exaggerations allow Zemeckis to cut to the very heart of his material...
...breaks up with her fiance; she suddenly senses that life has more possibilities than she had previously realized. A loud mouthed boy (Bobby DiCicco) tries to chop down the Sullivan show's transmitter because he knows that the Beatles mean the death of his macho '50s-greaser style. But history cannot be stopped, and the film ends with an ingenious restaging of the Beatles' TV debut. The scene is surprisingly affecting. Perhaps because things have so settled down since, it is very moving to relive that romantic Sunday night when the young seemed to inherit the earth...
...narcissism, low-keyed but explicit, whose pale concrete, blond wood and natural linen wall coverings provided a strictly subordinate background to the paintings. (The architect never lived to see it finished; he died in 1974.) This unpretentious exactness of taste was much in keeping with Mellon's general style of philanthropy: the ambition being, a phrase often heard by the curators and museum directors who have dealt with him, to do it right, and not skimp, but within budget. Thanks to the design, most of the center's collection was simultaneously available to view after it opened...