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...prize has never before been shared, but the pairing seems apt. Both Niemeyer, 80, and Bunshaft, 79, are really being honored for their pioneering work of 25 and 35 years ago. Bunshaft is the Miesian. As the chief design partner at New York City's Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he was the creator in the 1950s and early '60s of humane, impeccable steel-frame-and-glass-skin office towers, among the best built anywhere. Niemeyer is the prolific Corbusian, a quirkier and more perilously romantic builder of singular, often bombastic objects -- most notably the major public buildings of Brasilia, the utopistic...
...COCOANUTS. Is that really Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo? No, but Washington's Arena Stage has fizzily reconstructed their 1925 Broadway hit with George S. Kaufman's script, Irving Berlin's score and some apt impersonations...
...emulate Nunn's commercial success -- and income -- as director of the musicals Cats, Les Miserables and Starlight Express. Hands committed himself to staging a most unorthodox venture for the R.S.C.: a $7 million musical adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 horror novel Carrie. In meetings, colleagues say, Hands was apt to recite costs and potential box-office income at various Broadway houses...
Pressurizing an aircraft for high-altitude flight and then depressurizing it for a landing is analogous to inflating and deflating a balloon. Eventually, the fuselage of the plane, like the surface of the balloon, is apt to give way. The Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 was what aviation professionals call a "high-time" aircraft -- one nearing the end of its operational life -- and had undergone far more pressurization cycles than Far Eastern...
...analogy is apt because two years ago Mayfair Mansions was invaded by an army of drug dealers who threatened to take over the place. Gangs operated freely behind closed doors as well as in the open, in abandoned apartments and in deserted courtyards. Hallways were littered with syringes, burned matches, cotton balls -- the accoutrements of the drug world. Gunfire was a nightly occurrence, and there were at least a dozen deaths from shootings and overdoses. "We have been under siege for almost two years by drug dealers," Barbara Brown, vice president of the Mayfair Residents Council told TIME's Susan...