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...that add up to a winning industrial posh. Stanley Saitowitz's design for the Quady Winery in California's San Joaquin Valley embraces a kindred sort of gritty elegance. Again, ordinary materials are enriched by thoughtful treatment: plywood walls are exposed within and covered in stucco outside, while the arc of the crimped metal roof gives the building an unpretentious barnlike grace...
...companies led by Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine is exploring the possibility that there may actually be oil under the city's venerable streets. Last week four 14 1/2-ton trucks completed a series of seismic tests that took them lumbering down the Champs Elysees and past such landmarks as the Arc de Triomphe, the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre...
...place was abandoned: a rusting abode of cats and pigeons, whose damp silence was occasionally broken by film units; Orson Welles and Bernardo Bertolucci are among the directors who have sought evocative locations in its Piranesian gloom. Meanwhile developers covetously eyed it, dreaming of the slow-motion arc of the wrecker's ball. In 1971 the French government, under President Georges Pompidou, issued a demolition order...
This year's uniform collegiate 19-ft., 9-in. three-point arc is an absurdity. It is more ridiculous than the old three-to-make-two-free throws rule, far more ridiculous than the possession arrow-rather-than-jump ball rule, possibly even more ridiculous than football's instant replay regulation. Then again...
Abolishing the three-point shot in college basktball after this season would be an unnecessary loss for both the players and the fans, brought on solely by the NCAA's decision to draw the arc at an unreasonably short distance...