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Last week's personnel changes may enhance the possibility that some sort of tax reform will eventually be enacted into law. As its chief architect, Regan is likely to keep tax reform high on the White House agenda. Baker also seems eager to tackle this issue. But with his finely tuned political sensibilities, the pragmatic Baker appears to be more capable than Regan of working out a compromise package. "The odds are now greater for a tax bill, but a less sweeping one than otherwise," says Wyoming's Dick Cheney, chairman of the House Republican Steering and Policy Committee...
...concert halls in the U.S. have tended to be either lavishly restored movie $ palaces, such as Powell Hall in St. Louis and the Paramount Theater in Oakland, or gleaming, high-tech edifices like Davies Hall in San Francisco and Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore. Last week in St. Paul, Architect Benjamin Thompson, the designer of Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, unveiled a stunning combination: the Ordway Music Theater, a $45 million jewel overlooking the Mississippi that is one of the handsomest public spaces for music in America...
...learned their art in the School of Debunking. But accounts of past lives have yielded to a more generous and appreciative discipline, which has led to opposite excesses. For declaring Prince Albert "comparable to Thomas Jefferson" and for insisting that Queen Victoria's Prince Consort "merits a volume as architect, designer, farmer, and naturalist," Robert Rhodes James earns highest marks in the Warts Can Be Beautiful School of Biography...
...exactly homey, the mood that Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes has created in the interiors and the charming sculpture garden of the Dallas Museum of Art is certainly inviting, festive and duly dignified all at once...
...called Classic Country Cottage in Reston, Va., is indeed a small (1,500 sq. ft.), compact cottage. Clever manipulation of the two-level interior spaces, however, makes it look and feel much larger. Designed by Woodstock, N.Y., Architect Lester Walker, the house is made entirely of wood, with cedar bevel siding and bright blue trim. This model home was sponsored by the American Wood Council and House Beautiful magazine...