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You can get a grasp of Zumthor's working method from the 1996 project that first gained him wide notice, a thermal bath house on the grounds of a spa hotel in the Swiss commune of Vals. He set the building into a hillside and fashioned the interiors as spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Minimalist Peter Zumthor Wins Architecture Prize | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

But psychographics may not be that ominous after all. Scientific purists argue that market researchers aren't really getting inside people's minds--they're just manipulating ordinary shopping and demographic data to make it look that way. Carrie Hollenberg, a senior consultant at SRI Consulting Business Intelligence, says many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Sell It to the Psyche | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

They promoted him at a gay bar in Atlanta, at a recording studio in New York City--unique places. The sidebar to this promo trip--which included a catered buffet and booze and whatever quaaludes, reds and vals you could cop from the local rockies--was a brief look at...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Rock 'n Roll Sometimes Forgets | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

The Pistols' unwonted decorum may have been imposed by the presence out front of the Atlanta vice squad. After all, the Pistols had caused a scandal on British TV a year ago with their vile language. They had been fired by two record companies, locked out by most of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Breakheart Pass has the trappings of a classic western: a fine old steam train carrying a detachment of soldiers makes its way through picturesque but hostile country. Everyone aboard is fearful of Indian attack, yet bravely determined to relieve an isolated garrison whose force has been decimated by disease. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stalled Express | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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