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...Architect of Marshall Plan...
...such decisions, large and small, will this new institution be judged. The rock museum, which will celebrate its grand opening this weekend, boasts an impressive building by architect I.M. Pei (the entire project cost $92 million), interactive exhibits (touch-screen computers that play requested songs and videos) and an array of music memorabilia, including the poetry Bruce Springsteen wrote in junior college (excerpt: "emerald waves crashed upon the shores...") and a list from the Rolling Stones detailing what they required backstage for their 1972 tour (among the items: vodka, backgammon set and "apple pie--lots"). As of last week, however...
...Architect Pei also had to be persuaded before he would agree to design the building. Pei, 78, admits that he isn't a fan of rock 'n' roll. "I have been subjected--I guess that's the word--to that music by my children for years," he says. "So we have lots of records at home. But I never played them very much." Yet after Atlantic Records co-chairman Ahmet Ertegun and Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner took him on a trip to Graceland and New Orleans to learn more about rock, Pei got interested. (He now listens to some...
...staff members. The President has long been a fervent golfer, but not until June, when renovation of Dwight Eisenhower's old putting green on the South Lawn was completed, could he slip outside and practice his game without leaving the White House. The restored green, designed by renowned course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr., is 1,500 sq. ft. of Southshore Creeping Bentgrass, a putter's paradise. The addition has brightened Clinton's disposition and broken up his cluttered workday. In the months before he left for a golf-saturated vacation last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the President could...
...questing, tormented main character is Julia, a successful architect, divorced and, at 41, pregnant for the first time, by a casual lover. Her marriage broke up some years before because she refused to have children, fearing that a streak of brutality might surface in her own nature. Her mother disappeared when she was nine, and after that her charming, beloved father beat her repeatedly, abuse that stopped just short of being openly sexual...