Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This additional expense resulted in only marginally better taste. To be sure, the special effects are more persuasive than those of the other two films. Steve McQueen and Paul Newman bring authoritative dash to their work as, respectively, the fire captain and the architect who combine their charisma to minimize loss of life when the world's tallest building goes up in flames. Faye Dunaway provides the film's highest moments of suspense by nearly falling out of the damnedest dress you ever saw on several occasions. But looked at from an accountant's point of view...
...Earthquake, is that the scriptwriters feel obligated to fritter away time on people's banal problems. Bad marriages and love affairs naturally come apart, good ones grow better as the flames leap higher. Obvious cheaters and other meanies (the fire started because Builder Holden skimped on Architect Newman's safety specifications) get their comeuppance, while individuals of quiet integrity win a chance to prove their virtue...
...output depends). With its import prices rising twice as fast as its export prices, Denmark suffered a more than $ 1 billion balance of payments deficit in 1974. Unemployment, at a 22-year high, has cut deeply into some professions. "If you take the No. 6 bus on Thursdays," observes Architect JØrgen Andersen, 39, "it is full of architects on their way to the unemployment office." (Andersen himself will be laid off by March 1.) They are casualties of the slump in the construction industry. Other industries particularly hard hit: textiles, meat-packing and car assembly...
...either major party and 3) did a powerful and pleasant lot of offstage politicking looking to 1976, as a pride of Democratic hopefuls moved around constantly, trying to win friends and influence delegates. The tone was set by the party captains, led by Chairman Robert Strauss, the chief architect of the convention and engineer of compromise (see box next page). They agreed with Baltimore's Barbara Mikulski, who declared: "We must return to the policy of coalition; the new coalition of the 1960s must combine with the old coalition of the 1930s...
Richardson initiated the Romanesque revival, drawing on the architecture of castles and fortresses from the turn of the first millenium. The arch, the doors, the turrets, apparently suggest images even to the cursory observer, narrowing the usual gap between the architect's conception and the everyday thoughts of the building's users. But Richardson's importance as an architect comes from his original manipulation of form and space, not from the round arches and towers he took from an earlier era. The scholar Henry-Russell Hitchcock termed Sever "vigorous," and "manly"--a phrase I deplore--and "rather more orderly" than...