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...executives selected new fonts called Utopia and Minion for the headlines and the text respectively, replacing the more traditional Times and Transitional fonts...
...effort is the speed with which she and her organization have accomplished their mission. Williams was hired by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation in 1991 to form an anti-land mine coalition. "When we began, we were just three people sitting in a room," she said. "It was Utopia." The numbers grew quickly. The fruits of her labor resulted in the ICBL, an alliance of more than 1,000 anti-land mine groups. Early on, a participant predicted that it would take at least 30 years for a land-mine ban to be enacted...
...Grand Utopia," the result of a partnership between the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) and the Busch-Reisinger. Silent films from the Soviet Union and posters from the October Revolution to the first Three-Year-Plan...
...Puritans meanwhile created a severe culture of practicality and moral rigor as they set out to build a virtuous Utopia in the wilds of the Northeast. What they wrought, Hughes says, has proved basic to how Americans view themselves even today. He visits the "Old Ship" meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, a stripped-down, foursquare building that embodies the seriousness and urgency of Puritan life. Puritans were also fixated on death, and in a simple wooded cemetery Hughes discusses why gravestones were their only acceptable art form...
...than the relatively placid late '90s--just about any decade of this cataclysmic century would have. And maybe that's why the millennium already feels like a dud. Compared with where we've been these past hundred years, the new age seems to promise normality more than doom or utopia. Which isn't a bad thing--it just doesn't offer much prospect for funny cartoons, or riveting drama, or even, alas, spiffy office chairs...