Word: afterthought
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...does not mind that his giddy young wife lies dead on the floor, accidentally slain by him as she prankishly impersonated a ghost. What really inflames him is that the breakfast toast has gone cold. In a ranting fury he rings for a servant and, almost as an afterthought, gulls the hapless lackey into believing himself responsible for the killing. Then, confident of his escape and frugal to the last, Lord Are points to the remains of the meal and tells his dupe, with a dismissive flourish, "Throw the toast to the hens on your way to prison...
...buildings designed with Partner Michael Wilford, Stirling made halfhearted concessions to historicism. His first completed U.S. commission, Rice University's 1981 School of Architecture in Houston, for example, is a staid, humbly conventional structure -- with an asymmetrically placed porthole punched in an end wall, almost as a defiant postmodernist afterthought...
...injured by Hauptman's desire to explore fully Gillette the non-existent metaphor The springs and wires of Hauptman's plot are so obvious that the set deserves some telegraph lines in the background. It seems as though the play was plotted first, with characters added as an afterthought. A case in point: Cherry Jones's first appearance as Jody Bobby's blue denim romantic obsession is very funny she's a biker's moll with a nuclear war phobia and a vearning for a little TECC. when sheappears next, she has undergone a complete metamore phosis from a lizzy...
...accomodate the disabled, perhaps above all for economic reasons, can never be as complete as all students would like, nor can it take into account all possible scenarios. The problem, in the eyes of officials, is that much planning for the disabled has taken the form of an afterthought, a particularly difficult challenge considering the size of Harvard's campus and the age of most University buildings, constructed without appreciation for the needs of the disabled...
...idea for a consistent graphic and environmental design came only as an afterthought. Early in 1982, as Architect Jerde, 44, worked on converting the UCLA dormitories into temporary housing for Olympic athletes, he realized that even temporary changes would be highly visible evidence of the Olympic presence. The organizing committee agreed to coordinate this visibility and turned the job over to Jerde's firm, The Jerde Partnership, which specializes in creating an urban ambience for shopping centers and commercial districts. Jerde in turn recruited Designer Sussman, 53, a former art director in the office of Charles and Ray Eames...