Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quicker than you can say "currency speculation," the U.S. dollar has slumped to the lowest levels since last spring, completely wiping out the effects of a summer rally that had lifted the currency nearly 10% by late August, to a peak of 136 yen. Buoyed in part by a booming U.S. economy, the currency threatened to become strong enough to hinder progress in closing the trade...
JASPER JOHNS: WORK SINCE 1974, Philadelphia Museum of Art. The show that won the grand prize at last summer's Venice Biennale and cemented Johns' status as America's deepest living painter. Through...
...relevant to Hollywood. They may be able to help a small film, but they can't break a big one. "You always want a happy Friday," one studio exec says of critical raves. "But if the movie is an audience pleaser, it can overcome bad reviews, especially in the summer. People aren't walking in out of the heat to get art. They're looking for diversion...
Ellesmere, a Canadian island just 500 miles south of the North Pole, is a beautiful but forbidding world where the summer sun is candlelight soft and few living things can survive. It is also one of the last places on earth where the wolf roams unthreatened by man. In 1986 two men, biologist L. David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg, set out for Ellesmere to do what no one had ever done: live with a wild-wolf pack. Achieving all they had hoped for and more, Mech and Brandenburg managed to set up camp next to a wolf...
After his victory on Tuesday, which as recently as this summer seemed beyond his grasp, the man who has spent most of his career as a supporting player now has the chance to put his name on an era. The beginning of the decade that will end the century is destined to become known as the Bush years. The new President enters office with no clear mandate for imposing the tough solutions that will be necessary to tackle the nation's festering budget crisis. Nor has he propounded a vision for fin-de-siecle America or for a world that...