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...School. Southern California's Frank Gehry -- whose buildings are tough, peculiar, playful and often brilliant -- became the architectural avatar of the last half of the decade. His campus for Loyola in Los Angeles (1985), a dense little complex of rough stucco and plywood and cheap steel, is a thoroughly apt, gratifyingly civilized work...
Susan Sontag once defined books as "funny little portable pieces of thought." It is an apt description of this year's outstanding works for children. All twelve selected are thoughtful, small and funny in both senses of the word: odd and risible...
...loads piled up during the raider era -- by both the attackers and the managers seeking to repel them -- have made many companies less flexible and far more vulnerable to an economic slump. While the merger- / and-acquisition game will no doubt carry on in the 1990s, such deals are apt to be less grandiose and more carefully wrought than the quick-buck transactions that are currently coming to grief. Says J. Ira Harris, a Chicago-based senior partner of Lazard Freres: "These are only midterm grades. The real grades arrive when you have an old-fashioned recession...
...suddenly out of date. As are, an optimist dutifully believes, many thousands of border guards, KGB head beaters and assassins in the real world. Espionage will go on, of course, but presumably it will be of the corporate kind, waged among Japan, Korea and the European Community, which is apt to | include Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, what used to be called East Germany, and (as an associate member) what remains of the Soviet Union. Will thriller fans line up for tales of Samsung or Mitsubishi infiltrating Siemens A.G. and being foiled by plucky marketing execs...
...revival. To prepare for a meeting of 5,000 plastic surgeons, the Moscone Convention Center was forced last week to evict 1,000 homeless people, who were shifted to Army barracks in the Presidio and to the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Pelileu, which served as a floating dormitory. By apt coincidence, the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies held its convention, as scheduled, in San Francisco last week...