Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Staff James Baker met twice last week with congressional leaders. The two sides had their frankest exchanges yet on defense. Republican Domenici stunned Administration negotiators with a proposal that the 1985 military spending increase be held to 5%, instead of the 13% the President wants. House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas demanded that the White House provide a list of Pentagon programs ranked according to how vital they
Bessie Smith sang for those cameras, and Josephine Baker danced for them. Dizzy Gillespie bopped there, and the novelist Richard Wright played his own creation, Bigger Thomas, in the film version of Native Son. Taken together, this body of film is a priceless record of the styles and manners, aspirations and attitudes of black America between 1920 and 1950, when these little pictures (they usually cost about $20,000) made their way along the circuit of more than 600 theaters, segregated either formally or de facto, that served the black community...
...House, the elegant building across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. The Administration's team included Regan, Stockman and Baker. On the congressional side, two Reaganite stalwarts, Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, represented the Republicans. The Democrats were House Majority Leader James Wright of Texas and Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii...
...Wright countered with a plan calling for a stretch-out, from five to six years, of most military procurement programs. That, said Wright, would save $100 billion in one grand sweep. He dismissed the White House proposals as a "shopping list of little things that is a waste of time." Wright's stretch-out plan was a politically sly move because it was originally put forward in 1982 by a leading Republican, former President Gerald Ford...
Some of the buildings were ego trips that overpowered the art they were to shelter and display, among them Frank Lloyd Wright's dizzying Guggenheim Museum (1959) and Marcel Breuer's brutal Whitney Museum of American Art (1966), both in New York City. Philip Johnson's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln (1963) returned to a somewhat saccharine classicism. But the one museum of that hectic period that seemed to work best for the display of art was Barnes' Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1971). Its architectural form is not particularly...