Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting in the Manhattan offices of Architect I.M. Pei last week was a reconvening of the New Frontier. Almost the entire Kennedy family was there (Jacqueline Onassis arrived 20 minutes late and was reprimanded by a receptionist); so were Robert McNamara, Burke Marshall, C. Douglas Dillon and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The luminaries had gathered not to launch a new candidacy, however, but to decide once and for all the location of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Finally, after family members had left the room twice to caucus, the entire board made its decision: the $14 million complex...
Schlesinger has been a perceptive critic of detente; Kissinger, the architect of that policy. Detente is surrender to the Communists on the installment plan...
MANUEL FRAGA IRIBARNE, 53, Ambassador to Britain, a major architect of Spain's tourist boom in the 1960s and head of a recently formed center-rightist political movement...
...less is more," in Architect Mies van der Rohe's famed phrase, this winter's new handbags are the most. Smaller than the standard envelope, minibags can be clutched in the hand, slung across a shoulder, hung from the neck or draped from the waist. The smaller the bag, the tinier the tag. One of ten models designed by Manhattan's Shirl Miller, a simple vinyl bagatelle retailing for $8, has sold more than 1 million. Other designs in more elegant materials can cost upwards of $100. The boom in bags has puzzled its beneficiaries. Says Bloomingdale...
...must sacrifice some suspense on the altar of comic effect, and as a result, the final revelations lose part of their force. In addition, her emphasis curtails the range of emotions implicit in the script, since characters as different as the cynical Mr. Paravicini and the pathetic would-be architect Christopher Wren emerge in this production as similarly successful comic types. Sometimes laughter intrudes where it shouldn't; for example, Wren's paranoid outburst in the second act ("You're all against me, everyone's always been against me"), is in context far more amusing than pitiable...