Word: air
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said that Piano "single-handedly recaptured the long-lost romance of the skyscraper" with the Debis Tower that anchors the project. At no point, however, was the audience allowed to forget the details, as Piano often went into specifics, such as how the engineering of the Debis Tower allowed air conditioning to be optional (a remarkable feat for a skyscraper) and allowed each person in the building control over his or her own environment...
...pool--sunstruck guys in Speedos, women unfurling on the concrete--he understands that a municipal body of water is where the eternal elements meet the here and now. When he rides an elevated subway car, he sees a cramped rectangle that's a public square, where people sign the air every time they stretch. And in the simplest black churches he recognizes that rapture is democratic, that a scuffed room is sanctified by the supreme projection of human needs in God's general direction. What he's saying is that the city is a place requiring courage and cunning...
...luck. ABC plans to air a Stone "special" that will probe, among other topics, spooky theories about the 1996 crash (network honchos won't call the project a documentary, since documentaries employ what fuddy-duddies like to call "facts"). Under the working title Oliver Stone's Declassified, the show is tentatively scheduled to air in February and may become a regular series...
...concern to colleagues in ABC's entertainment division. Last week East Coast newsies said Westin assured them that the Flight 800 portion of Declassified has been axed. But trust no one: Stone says 800 will be part of his show. The public ABC line is that the program will air with warnings that the news division didn't produce it (a disclaimer that could boost ratings dramatically...
Washington wants Baghdad to believe it's about to start raining cruise missiles -- perhaps because fear of attack may impact more heavily on Saddam than an actual air strike would. That could be the thinking behind "military sources'" discussion of attack scenarios in the New York Times and a U.S. officer in Kuwait's loud hints that strikes are imminent...