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...such characters (Election, Legally Blonde) with a stylized, satiric wink. Silverstone plays it perfectly straight and dares you to sneer instead of melt. And she wins. We ignore that most of Kate's setups fail and that, Cupid that she is, she can't see that her puppy-eyed architect client (David Conrad) is her dream guy. It makes no sense, but Silverstone's and Miss Match's charms make you see the show's flaws as strengths. That's love for you. --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
Next to him, the major figure behind the Center was the great architect Raymond Hood, linchpin of the design team. Brilliant, charming and not infrequently pixilated, Hood was one of the pioneers in the transition from Gothic Revival and Beaux Arts skyscrapers to the sleek, mostly unadorned towers of the 1930s. Did Junior want his new buildings crowned with arcades, wreaths and maybe a nice pergola? You bet he did. But Hood, who died before the Center was completed, gave him, with the RCA Building, a modern masterpiece that Rockefeller never fully comprehended...
...talk about serious things like new capital requirements when you know that everyone listening is just wondering whether you're going to resign." Deutsche Bank must also convince investors that it can function effectively and implement the next phase of Ackermann's reforms, even though their chief architect will be out of action for days at a time. The trial is expected to start early next year and will likely go on for months. And as Ackermann made clear in his London presentation on Sept. 4, he still has unfinished business. Since taking over, he has cut Deutsche Bank...
...Namesake is a novel about distance, geographic and emotional, but it's also about time. The decades zoom by in a parade of poignant tableaux, and the Gangulis' son Gogol grows up to become a successful architect, but he is never quite comfortable in his own skin. He feels neither Indian nor American, without even a true home to feel homesick for. But a series of tableaux, however poignant, does not a novel make. In her Pulitzer-prizewinning story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, Lahiri mastered the art of ending on a freeze-frame, leaving her characters suspended in a moment...
...single reporter asked a single question about the Crimson’s most prolific passer ever and the architect of Harvard’s only perfect season since 1913. The questions on Saturday were all about Ryan...