Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for Kissinger's exalted reputation as a wonderworker, obviously, is the record of his diplomatic successes. Another is the fact that, with Richard Nixon hampered and crippled by Watergate, Kissinger increasingly looms as the architect as well as the voice of U.S. policy. That, of course, is not quite the case. Kissinger himself always makes it clear that the necessary thrust of the White House is behind his success, but the misperception is understandable. Still another reason is that Kissinger happens to be the right man in the right place at the right time. As London Times Foreign Editor...
...Architect I.M. Pei has decided to "rethink" his plans for the Kennedy Library in response to community criticism of the project, leaving Maguire with only a concept of the library to work with...
...many dealers and most collectors, who contend that it would diminish or even wreck the art market, depress prices, and discourage new collectors. These critics raise other objections: Why should an artist be entitled to a piece of the profit every time his work is resold when an architect, say, must settle for a single flat fee for designing a building that may be resold a dozen times? What if a collector resells a painting at a loss? And, given the informal nature of many transactions in the art world, how could any body possibly keep track...
Others named to the group yesterday are Michael Baram, MIT professor of Civil Engineering; Jack P. Ruina, MIT professor of electrical engineering; and Theodore Monacelli, a Cambridge architect...
...film, does not seem such a major artist judging from the films he has made in the last 15 years, but Hiroshima itself is still potent--especially in the few scenes about the nuclear disaster. The film begins with a French actress falling in love with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima, and after that the associations of love and war provoke a dislocation of memory and time...