Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot get funding from bank loans, new stock issues or other conventional sources. They also usually seek out firms in the forefront of a new industry. The odds may be long, but the return can be high. Says Donald Ackerman, 47, senior partner of New York's J.H. Whitney.& Co.: "One large winner takes care of a lot of mediocre situations and even an occasional loser. This is not a game for little investors...
...artist in particular, though, did change-and was not thanked for it. He was Philip Guston, whose retrospective of 106 works spanning 50 years from 1930 to 1980 is now on view at the Whitney Museum in New York City...
...paper tiger. Defense contractors can produce weapons even at today's slow pace only with ruinous cost overruns. The contractors blame the military for constantly revising plans; the Pentagon blames the contractors for slovenliness and inefficiency. Meanwhile, production lead times stretch out: the order-to-delivery time for Pratt & Whitney's F-100 aircraft engine, for example, has lengthened from 19 to 38 months in the past two years. Experts warn that the industry does not have the capacity to build arms at the pace that Reagan wants. General Alton D. Slay, head of the Air Force Systems Command, told...
...evidence of this disciplined rush to perfection of technique and technology can be seen at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art in "Disney Animations and Animators." Preliminary character and background sketches, animators' roughs of entire sequences, eels (the finished ink and paint drawings that the camera photographed), even film loops in which roughs and completed films are juxtaposed-all are there. The show provides a singular insight into the painstaking work of the talented artists who competed to realize Disney's dreams...
...where his students included Edward Larrabee Barnes, Ulrich Franzen, Paul Rudolph and I.M. Pei. A leading fig ure in the International style of architecture, Breuer designed such distinguished buildings as the IBM Research Center in La Gaude, France, the St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., and the Whitney Museum in New York City. "Buildings should not be moody, but reflect a general, durable quality," he once said. "Architecture should be anchored in usefulness...