Word: working
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wexner, Eisenman teamed up with the far more conventional Columbus architect Richard Trott ("I went in for the touchdown, and Dick was the blocking back who knocked guys over"). The building is certainly the best work of his career, an intense, almost out-of-control collage of materials and forms. "There's no question that this is my most completely realized building," he says. "In a sense it's my first building." He still would not want to live in any of the houses he's designed (his home is an 18th century cottage in Princeton...
Like all of Eisenman's work, the Wexner Center is an obsessive meditation on the grid, modernism's elemental unit. For starters, Eisenman has lined up the building with the Columbus city grid rather than the campus grid -- an off- kilter tilt of 12 1/4 degrees. Within the complex, he has laid down still more grids to play with: the 12-ft. modules of white steel scaffolding, structural columns set 24 ft. apart, decorative columns 48 ft. apart. He lets these various grids overlap and collide, creating quirky niches and three- dimensional geometric cat's cradles everywhere. Inside, the experience...
...Inaugural Address last January, George Bush obliquely appealed to Iran to work with him for the release of nine American hostages held by Islamic groups in Lebanon. Since then the U.S. and Iran have carried on a delicate game of winks and nods, feints and gestures. The game sometimes requires both sides, for their own reasons, to pretend that they are not actually playing. And for the Americans, there is always the suspicion that the Iranian aloofness is for real...
...some of the pressure to emigrate. Uwe Grebasch, 28, the driver, said he and his companion, Frank Vogel, 28, had considered leaving East Germany for good but decided against it. "We can take it over there as long as we can leave once in a while," said Grebasch. "Our work is O.K., but they must now let us travel where we want, when we want, with no limits...
...vanished social class the wisdom of modern Pop psychology? It prevents the actors from tearing into their roles with the black comic gusto that Glenn Close and John Malkovich brought to their feverish performances in Dangerous Liaisons last year. But besides spoiling the fun, this approach / blurs the work's value as a cautionary tale, capable of reminding us that motiveless malignity is a potent force in every age and one that not even Freud -- let alone humanistically inclined moviemakers -- can explain away...