Word: styling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building is actually rather low-key, never overwhelming its campus. "We're on the short list for a new building at Yale," says Eisenman, the contextualist-come-lately. The location, he says nonchalantly, as if he had not spent the past 20 years ranting against any hint of historical style, "seems to call for a neo-Georgian classical box or something." Kinder and gentler, indeed...
Dinkins' campaign manager Bill Lynch insists that the new mayor's consensus- building style will enhance his ability to deal with New York's seemingly intractable problems. Says Lynch: "The image that you have to be a tough guy to be mayor of New York is wrong." Perhaps, but the choices that the new mayor will face are certainly going to be tough. Says Ray Harding, head of the Liberal Party and Giuliani's earliest political ally: "David Dinkins brings tranquillity, and that's evidently what New York wants." As tough times hit, New York might need much more than...
...Throughout the 1980s, Wilder had consciously shaped his persona to make his blackness and ground-breaking achievements seem almost boring and quietly inevitable. He did not disown his racial identity, tossing off laugh lines like, "How can I not think of myself as a black man? I shave." His style, rather, was to envelop the historic implications of his campaign in a protective cloak of Bill Cosbyesque banalities...
...actors cast in these smaller roles team up in the second act for an amusing group vocal performance of "Slips Away," which they sing as the beaten Hoss lies catatonic on the floor. Clad in 50's-style tuxedo jackets, Buttaro, Baptiste, Kiser and John Byrd (Hoss' friend, Cheyenne) perform this absolute best of all The Tooth of Crime's songs...
BERLIN--West Germany said yesterday it was willing to give East Germany massive financial aid in the style of the postwar U.S. Marshall Plan, but demanded political and economic reforms the Communists have so far rejected...