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...Like an architect. You build stuff and keep building Sentence by sentence, word by word and finally you get the outcome. Sometimes you don't know the form you're supposed to use. I've written plays that ended up being novels, poems that ended up being novels. I think its important to not only look at writing for technique, but to look at all the other arts. The more I work in film, the more I'm getting film images in my novel, looking at things the way a filmmaker would. So I learn from different artists, musicians...
Viggiani was a chief architect of the Task Force definition--rejected by the Ad Board in November--which defined date rape as "sexual intercourse that occurs without the expressed consent of the person...
...create small paintings for Victoria House. Also, after he took a painting class at the Laguna-Gloria Museum in his hometown of Austin, Texas, Shefelman began to determine form in his works more by color than by line, as he had been trained to do as an architect...
Sometimes dubbed Singapore, Inc., the nation had its credo set by visionary economic architect Goh Keng Swee: "Government policy must be directed to the pursuit of business excellence." The country is the world's busiest container port, the third largest oil-refining center, the major exporter of computer disk drives. Its manufacturing relies on multinational corporations, and it has attracted some 3,000 foreign companies with generous tax breaks, ultramodern telecommunications, an efficient airport and tame labor unions...
...awakening of self-reliance in the urban poor is a global phenomenon. In Karachi, architect Akhter Hameed Khan rallied the people of the Orangi district around a self-help initiative to upgrade their sanitation. With 800,000 residents from five of Pakistan's major ethnic groups, the neighborhood is periodically racked by violence. Still, working lane by lane, beginning in 1980, Hameed Khan and his co-workers in the Orangi Pilot Project proved to the district that with a tiny investment ($40 a house), it could install its own sewerage system. Since then, roughly 70% of the 6,347 lanes...