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...80s, however, the movement that Venturi had provoked was ascendant, ubiquitous. The more popularly celebrated and lucrative careers of Michael Graves and Robert Stern in the '80s and '90s depended on Venturi's breakthroughs in the '60s; Philip Johnson's highboyish AT&T Building, dreamed up in the late 1970s, might have been created by Venturi a decade earlier. "If you invent something," Scott Brown says, "it has a sort of agony to it. Your followers can take that as a point of departure -- it is much easier for them to make it beautiful." Finally Venturi gets to the bottom...
Though this is an oversimplification, it was this movement of which Ronald Reagan became the champion and which carried Reagan to near-victory in 1976 and solid wins throughout the '80s. Bush retained enough of this constituency to win in '88 because he ran on the Right...
Lichten says former President Derek C. Bok and the Harvard Corporation encouraged the maintance work in the late '80s, and faculty members seemed supportive of the measures...
Verba was recently named to chair afaculty-student committee on the Reserve OfficersTraining Corps and Chaired a committee onaffirmative action in the late 80s. An activefaculty member, he demonstrated his administrativeand fundraising skills during a stint asUniversity librarian...
Twelve years ago -- back in those innocent days when candidate Ronald Reagan was pledging to balance the budget by cutting taxes, and first-time presidential contender George Bush was crowing that he was "up for the '80s" -- former Treasury Secretary John Connally embarked on a bold strategy in his quest for the G.O.P. nomination. In place of the Soviet Union and the Ayatullah's Iran, Connally concocted an entirely different American enemy: a small and peaceable island nation called Japan. Connally blustered that unless the Japanese practiced fair trade, "they'd better be prepared to sit on the docks...