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...hundreds of buildings worldwide have also garnered acclaim. A Bordeaux residence he designed for a man confined to a wheelchair was named Best Design of 1998 by Time magazine...
...project has drawn wide acclaim from council members, despite its origins in the Ivy Council--a body with representatives from each Ivy League school that has come under fire from some council members for wasting council funds and accomplishing little...
...lost Details? In fairness, it was on the critical list before Golin. Under the editorship of James Truman--now editorial director of all Conde Nast magazines--Details enjoyed early-'90s acclaim as a stylish bible of the downtown club scene. But it floundered, changing editors like Polo boxer-briefs and redefining itself constantly, most recently as a pop-culture gazette with a dash of red-blooded...
...neck with Picasso," says Wooster Scott, whose work appears on jigsaw puzzles, Christmas cards and calendars. "I still can't believe I beat him." (Pablo's heirs can take comfort: he still holds the worldwide title.) Though her idealized portraits of rural New England may never receive the acclaim of Guernica, they are irresistible to greeting-card companies and the aesthetes who work in the lottery business: 11 states have featured her work on their lottery tickets...
Miklos Rozsa paid for his swimming pool by scoring such celluloid epics as Double Indemnity and Ben-Hur. Result: snobbish critics wrongly assumed his concert music was glitzy trash. Five years after his death, the Oscar-winning Hungarian composer is at last getting acclaim for such disciplined yet intensely passionate works as the soaring violin concerto he wrote in 1956 for Jascha Heifetz, newly and brilliantly recorded by McDuffie, Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony. Forget the dumb critics' bum rap--this is great music...