Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasonable deal for reasonable people." Thus William Whitelaw, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, characterized the British government's proposals that were presented last week in an attempt to end the agony of Ulster. That was a reasonable appraisal. As Whitelaw, principal architect of the plan, conceded: "We knew we couldn't please everyone." Yet by being blunt in places and vague in others, the proposals offered almost everyone something. Reason, however, has repeatedly been a casualty in Northern Ireland...
...Design Review Board would include five members, all appointed by the City Manager--two architects, one landscape architect, one citizen recommended by the Chamber of Commerce, and one resident of the Harvard Square area...
Helwig said that he believed that I. M. Pei, chief architect for the Library, would cooperate with the spirit of the petition, but that Pei could probably claim legal exemptions from the new ordinance (because the Library is a Federal project) if he so desired...
...played here by the international beauty Helmut Berger, Ludwig never consults a plan, hectors an architect or drives a construction foreman crazy. Visconti doesn't even make anything humanly or dramatically interesting out of Ludwig's other major project-rescuing Richard Wagner (Trevor Howard) from his debts and subsidizing the première of Tristan and the beginning of work on the Ring Cycle. Such activities imply a mysterious will and energy that cries out for interpretive speculation; but this would interfere with Visconti's simple view of Ludwig as a moony homosexual victim...
...SECOND WEEK of the exhibition Sam Unger displayed seven studies of hands. Unger has photographed human hands as sculpture--none of the arrangements are gestures; all are disembodied. In most of his pictures, Unger successfully maintains the tension of treating a normally expressive subject with the eye of an architect; the few shots in which the position of the hands is neither gesture nor arresting form are disappointing. The communication of the texture--both of skin and of darkness--in these predominantly black photographs is impeccable...