Word: russell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post-Hemingway adventurer like Russel Price (Nick Nolte) does not, of course, permit himself to articulate such aspiring thoughts. With his thick voice, his beefy former jock's build and his wary-passive manner, Nolte plays Price (very authentically) as a man who is all reflexes of the single-lens variety. The big picture in Nicaragua, as the Somoza regime yields to the Sandinistas in 1979, means little to Price, who is portrayed as being on assignment for TIME; he is more concerned with the succession of little moneymakers he must try to capture as they flee past...
This reciprocal inspiration was replayed in the 1950s, when the Japanese resurrected their industry and invited such leading American industrial designers as Russel Wright and Jay Doblin to teach them modern design. Now Japanese architects and designers are returning the visit...
Young marrieds of the 1940s could not go wrong with Russel Wright, then easily the country's best-known designer. His furniture and tableware were smart, modern, practical and informal. Best of all, they were cheap. In 1940, a 20-piece "starter set" of Wright's American Modern pottery dinner dishes cost about $6. The announcement that year of a new shipment at Gimbels' New York store caused block-long lines and a near riot. The design had never been as popular in America...
Wright's designs went out of fashion long before he died in 1976. The exhibition "Russel Wright: American Designer" (currently at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, N.Y., and opening at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., in November) should revive fond memories and be an exciting discovery for those who never heard...
With few exceptions, Wright's pieces still look good-not elegant or sophisticated like a Barcelona chair, but pleasing and "user friendly." They remain contemporary, a word often used in Wright's heyday partly to overcome the prevailing resistance to "modern" and partly because, like Danish furniture, Russel Wright designs were different in spirit from the work introduced by New York City's Museum of Modern...