Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architect's model of the Square after the extension is completed, which appeared in the "Red Line News," an MBTA publication, includes a newsstand in place of the subway entrance, and a triangular plaza in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. The section of street now in front of the bank is depicted as a walkway...
...group of parties supporting Giscard, had polled a remarkable 6 million votes, only 1.1% less than Chirac's party, thereby breaking the Gaullists' five-year stranglehold on the National Assembly. As a result, Giscard, 51, emerged as both the master of present-day French politics and the architect of the nation's future-at least until his presidential term expires in 1981. Aptly summing up the situation, Paris' left-of-center newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris headlined GISCARD'S SECOND SPRING...
Terrorism has seriously afflicted Italy for four sorry years, but no instance of kidnaping, extortion or assassination has ever before so enraged the nation or so threatened its tenuous political posture. As chairman of the Christian Democrats, Moro was the architect of the carefully devised political formula that had finally brought the Communists into the parliamentary majority. A law professor, he was noted as a conciliator and master of the anomalous solution that enabled disparate political forces to find common ground. He was, in fact, the leading candidate to succeed Giovanni Leone as Italian President...
...expressionist painting was, as Selz discreetly suggests, a good deal less antagonistic than is usually supposed.) But if the cult of the primitive was one aspect of expressionism, the scrutiny of the far less familiar recesses of the psyche was another. Kokoschka's painting of the avant-garde architect Adolf Loos is one of the few great modern portraits...
...however, the building was declared a city landmark, and restoration began in 1976 under the direction of Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. Philanthropist Enid A. Haupt funded the entire cost of the renovation with a gift of $5 million. The result is both handsome and ingenious. Even a new underground passageway, which left to its own devices would resemble nothing so much as a subway tunnel, will be put to pleasant use: in artificial light, aquarium plants, mushrooms and mosses will flourish...