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Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier may have dreamed up modernist architecture in Europe during the 1920s, but it took architects of the next generation, working in the wide-open, up-and-at-'em Western hemisphere, to make European functionalism a ubiquitous International Style during the 1950s and '60s. Two of the most fluent and influential New World apostles were the U.S.'s Gordon Bunshaft and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. This week in Chicago the two unrepentant old modernists will share the tenth annual Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Pritzker is by far the field's most prestigious award...
Reagan's economic progress is attributable, more than anything, to the decline of OPEC. The Republicans have a vested interest in maintaining wide-open oil production, because to the American voter, the drop in gasoline prices is probably the single most prominent economic improvement over the Carter administration. More importantly, if OPEC were to regain power and put a lid on oil production, prices could soar and pull America back into an inflationary spiral...
...LORDS: BASED ON A TRUE STORY (Enigma). Tough but graceful rock from a New York City-based band. No song has ever caught better than Cheyenne the hopeless romance of a city boy's vision of wide-open spaces...
Indeed, the loss of last year's seniors has set off a wide-open competition for some positions, especially in the infield. Freshman Beth Reilly is battling juniors Ellen Cox and Brita Lind for the thirdbase position, and on the other side of the diamond, Nancy Colbert and Beth McNamara are going for the first-base slot...
...take apart La Generale as a ruthless raider might do. Instead, he aims to expand the company into a Continental conglomerate in preparation for the era beyond 1992, when the trade barriers between the twelve European Community countries are scheduled to be eliminated. That step will create a wide-open marketplace of some 320 million consumers, a powerful launching pad for companies aiming to compete on a global scale. When that happens, Belgium Inc. could become the first holder of the title Europe...