Word: whitneys
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When Gray became United's chief executive in 1972, the company was known chiefly for its Pratt & Whitney jet engines. Since then, he has expanded by buying several firms, including Otis Elevator in 1976 and Carrier, the air-conditioner manufacturer, in 1979. Over the years, Gray's opponents have reportedly called the slow-speaking but fast-moving Georgian a robber baron, a buzzard, Dracula, Jack the Ripper and King Kong. Few of his takeover thrusts have been thwarted, however...
...works have been for the stage. With his slightly bug-eyed stare, shock of unruly hair and his jeans and work shirts, he is the very picture of the bohemian composer, admirably captured in a huge portrait, Phil, by Artist Chuck Close that hangs in New York's Whitney Museum. Glass's adventurous collaboration with avant-garde Dramatist Robert Wilson resulted in Einstein on the Beach, an experimental five-hour "opera" that played to packed houses in Europe and twice sold out the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Satyagraha, a more conventional work based...
...detached an artist. The bodies-always female-are not beautiful in the classic sense. Heavy-haunched and often pregnant, Soyer's models have inspired his freest, most impressionistic and ultimately his finest work. Among his most memorable pieces are the full-length 1952 Nude at the Whitney Museum, the lithographs at the Hirshhorn print show and the drawings of nudes that are scattered through his entire oeuvre...
...Rule, 75, civilian chief of procurement for the Navy who was a relentless, irreverent Government cost cutter; of cancer; in Arlington, Va. Often battling with military, congressional and corporate brass, he saved uncounted taxpayer dollars from 1963 to 1976, most notably when he carved $100 million from Pratt & Whitney's bill for F-111 jet engines...
Graves has since won other important commissions, notably a 27-story corporate headquarters in downtown Louisville, Ky., for Humana Inc., and an addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, designed by Bauhaus Architect Marcel Breuer. Yet it remains to be seen whether Graves' heavy-handed Pop surrealism-"a dash of deco and a whiff of Ledoux," as leading Postmodernist Architect Robert Venturi calls it-will influence workaday architecture. New inspirations are needed, but they should be inspirations that are real, joyful and charming...