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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Faulkner's funeral. His novelist's eye colors his perceptions: "Next to the benches, and about three feet apart, are two public drinking fountains, and I notice that the one boldly marked 'For Colored' is sitting squarely in the shadow cast by the justice symbol on the courthouse fa*ade - to be entered later, of course, in my writer's notebook, under 'Imagery, sociochiaroscurian, hack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Life and High Times of Terry Southern | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...Jewish Museum of Berlin, a shiny metal structure with zigzagging crevices on the façade that resemble a broken Star of David, opens with its permanent collection on Sept. 9. Meanwhile, starting June 17 in London's Hyde Park, Libeskind's shrunken, horizontal version of his proposed Spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum will serve as a temporary café and lecture space adjoining the Serpentine Gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confronting Berlin's Legacy | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...knows that Harvard committees have all the effectiveness of a sieve in a downpour, even when they weren’t formed to rehash the “work” of another committee. In other words: none. According to Harvard, committees are appointed to create a façade of action and to delay decisions...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: The Un-Victory | 5/11/2001 | See Source »

...Levitan said that the message regarding the current façade was pretty clear, and that future plans for the building would have to be radically different...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Rejects Harvard's Designs for Building | 4/10/2001 | See Source »

...inhabit look out on Somerset House, a masterpiece of 18th century design. The art treasures of the Courtauld Institute lie within its ornamented corridors, and its well-proportioned courtyards house handsome offices, restaurants and shops. Canaletto, along with other artistic admirers, painted a view of its sweeping façade along the Thames. When we look across the river at newer, uglier office blocks, we realize Somerset House represents a kind of perfection that succeeding generations did not - could not - improve upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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