Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heighten the adventure, not bury it. His last film, Stand By Me, was suffused with such yuppie winsomeness that today's generation of teenage boys could use it as their fathers had used copies of The Prophet: to impress girls with their sensitivity. Here, liberated by parody, he remints visual cliches, like the gloriously fake matte paintings of fairy-tale realms, and they are funny- lovely. As for the Princess Bride, she is flat-out lovely. Wright's grave blond beauty makes her the wedding-cake figure around which all the movie's clowns cavort. As you watch this enchanting...
Future historians will no doubt find different source material. Instead of rummaging through the Beinecke Library at Yale, they will spend their time in video archives watching old segments of Nightline and the MacNeil-Lehrer report. "So much is preserved in audio and visual these days," says Morris, "that it gives you much of a person's life and demeanor." Well, yes, the historians of the next century will be a lot more accurate in their portrayal of how people looked and spoke. But it is naive to believe that the way Caspar Weinberger answers a Ted Koppel question about...
...Museum of Modern Art's big summer show that closes Sept. 8 in New York City and reopens Oct. 22 in San Francisco, is one. Its senior curator, Kynaston McShine, took on a large subject, perhaps too large. The re-emergence of Berlin as a major center of the visual arts, after twelve years of Nazi darkness and a decade of limping postwar chaos, is not the only story of post- 1960s art, but it stays up there on the front page. Much against the odds of "internationalist" pieties, German artists in Berlin between 1950 and 1980 helped turn...
...surprise there: John Stears, the effects wizard of Star Wars, supervised the visual tricks on six early Bonds. He was one of many craftsmen who kept returning to the series: Screenwriter Richard Maibaum (twelve of the 15 films), Composer John Barry (twelve), Production Designer Ken Adam (seven), Main Credits Designer Maurice Binder (13). Bond's office colleagues -- M, Q and Moneypenny -- have appeared in every episode. John Glen, who has helmed the past four films, is just the fifth director in the series. The Bond team hit its early peak with Goldfinger in 1964 and followed up with some snazzy...
...wave of immigrants to the U.S. (1985); and American Best (1986), a journalistic celebration of everything that America and Americans do well. His eye-catching page design has also sharpened the look of TIME's annual Man of the Year and Images issues. Not surprisingly, many of Bentkowski's visual ideas have made their way from the special issues into our regular weekly pages. "Within the confines of TIME's weekly responsibilities," he says, "we've tried to treat every issue as a special issue." Bentkowski has attempted to make each edition of TIME an informative blend of visual...