Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which power is shared with nonCommunists. Mrs. Binh was the Viet Cong's chief negotiator in Paris and is one of the movement's most visible and best-publicized representatives. But Western analysts believe that the real power in the P.R.G. is wielded by Phat, a former architect who was the N.L.F.'s vice chairman and chief theoretician, and the mysterious...
...scandal. Unlike almost everyone else who got close to Nixon in his last year in office, Laird emerged with his reputation totally intact. A practical politician not given to selfdelusion, he referred to the Paris peace accords as an "American disengagement" rather than "peace with honor." Laird, the architect of Vietnamization and accelerated troop withdrawal, often differed with Kissinger on his handling of Viet...
...moderate liberalism on race, recently ran a seven-part all-out attack on the mayor. And some whites feel that he has now firmly tilted toward the city's black constituency. "In the white community, they think he is a black mayor for the black community," says Architect-Developer John Portman, a Jackson supporter. "He's perceived as taking every issue and turning it into a race issue. His biggest problem right now is raising white confidence. He has absolutely none...
Weymouth, will adorn Longleat House in Wiltshire, one of England's finest Elizabethan mansions, whose stately grounds were laid out by the legendary landscape architect Capability Brown. "Maze King" Bright, as he is known in Britain, will embellish Longleat with a lakefront, three-dimensional maze of yew hedges and no fewer than six covered bridges. The maze, when completed in several years, will be open to the public, but its secret, Bright has sworn, will be known only to himself and the Lord of Longleat...
German-born and a trained architect, Müller got into the bubble business almost by accident. He came to Paris in 1961 on a French government scholarship, worked for traditional architectural firms and began to experiment with light as a means of changing an environment. He soon had his own room in a light show in the Paris Museum of Modern Art, where he could be found drinking wine and talking with visitors on nights when the museum was open late. By then Muller's ideas had begun taking on a new shape; he wanted different materials...