Word: architected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commune of 1871 and left largely unoccupied since its restoration was completed in 1905. When Decorator Jacques Grange first inspected the premises in 1982, he found himself inside a glorious attic in which hundreds of pigeons flew free under a glass rooftop supported by a metal framework. Grange and Architect Daniel Kahane kept practically everything but the birds. They added oak for the floors, stone for stairs and gallery walls, spending nearly $6 million to achieve an easy, inviting elegance. It is an ambiance that contains the clothes nicely without competing with them...
...reshaping virtually every corner of the corporate landscape. While megadeals were once limited mainly to oil and other natural- resources giants, they are now affecting companies ranging from moviemakers to missile manufacturers. Says Felix Rohatyn, a senior partner in the investment banking house Lazard Freres and a principal architect of the GE and RCA merger: "In my 35 years of business, I have never seen anything remotely approaching this year's tidal wave of takeovers, mergers and buyouts of every size and shape, including both very good and sound ones and extremely ill- conceived ones...
DIED. Anne Baxter, 62, throaty-voiced actress whose stage and screen career, from her 1936 Broadway debut in Seen but Not Heard to her current role as TV's Hotel owner, embraced heartland innocence and brittle sophistication; after a stroke; in New York City. Baxter, the granddaughter of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, won an Oscar as best supporting actress for The Razor's Edge (1946) and was nominated for her scheming ingenue Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950); 20 years later she played Margo Channing, the aging star against whom Eve schemed, in Applause, a Broadway musical based...
Renzo Piano, Architect: a talk about his work, MIT Room...
Last week as the Prince and Princess were in the midst of their twelve-day trip to Australia, Charles was the center of a political brouhaha at home. Rod Hackney, an architect who advises Charles on community planning, had told the press that the Prince was deeply concerned about urban and racial unrest and did not want to succeed to the throne of a divided Britain. It came out that the Prince, who has recently been depicted as something of a royal layabout, has actually been making clandestine visits to the homeless of London and seeking advice...