Word: architected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deep ironic contrasts: Anne Frank tells her diary, "I twist my heart . . . so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like so to be." Four pages later a Nazi architect bitterly considers himself in the third person: "Hitler . . . would have been keenly delighted by the role Albert Speer played as a defendant...
Flashiness would only intimidate the clients of the Chatham County Social Services Building in Pittsboro, N.C. This structure was designed by Architect Norma DeCamp Burns of Burnstudio, Raleigh, N.C., to look like a house and convey a homey atmosphere for the staff as well as citizens who come for assistance with Medicare, food stamps and other public welfare programs...
...Leonardo was the greatest artist in the world." So begins Leonardo da Vinci, by A. & M. Provensen (Viking; $14.95). "He was also an astronomer, an architect, and an engineer who made hundreds of inventions." Granted, but how can a child be shown the breadth and scope of a genius five centuries removed? The Provensens have performed the impossible, and they have done it in twelve pages. Their solution is worthy of Leonardo himself: a popup book designed to show a movable church, a flying machine, a winged man, engineering and anatomical studies, a three-dimensional model of the heavens...
...chutzpah." That, apparently, was enough. "An architect stood to toast the venture," recalls Powell, 40, a veteran management executive. "But another said, 'Sit down, we've got too much work to do.' " Last month Swid and Powell showed buyers their new pieces, including four porcelain patterns and, to satisfy customers who want complete place settings, solid black and white plates, cups and saucers to harmonize with the designs. Store buyers are pushing them to add items like sheets and towels. But the women make it clear that they will go only so far in pursuing the vogue...
...request of Svetlana's former husband, American Architect William Wesley Peters, the U.S. embassy in Moscow has pressed the Soviets for assurances that the couple's daughter Olga willingly went to Moscow with her mother. Svetlana dismissed the inquiry, noting that "as long as she is a schoolgirl, she will act according to my wishes." Olga speaks no Russian, and reportedly her mother wants to enroll her in a special English-language school...