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...give a shit what happens," said the President of the United States. " want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover-up or anything else, if it'll save it, save the plan." The statesman, the architect of detente and the opening to China, talks in these moments like a don organizing the rackets in Brooklyn: the leader of the free world as a paranoid thug. Watergate was a large and shadowy kingdom. At least some of its landscape came at last to seem a portrait of the darkling mind of Nixon himself. The House...
Envy was the palace's original inspiration. King Louis XIV, outraged by the opulence of a château built by his Finance Minister Nicolas Fouquet, in 1662 hired Fouquet's architect, Louis le Vau, to create a monumental country palace of glass and champagne-hued stone at Versailles, twelve miles southwest of Paris. By 1685, 36,000 men were at work on the palace, then set within 15,000 acres of nurtured gardens, groves and lawns. Embarrassed by the cost of the project ($1.4 billion in today's dollars), Louis ordered the accounts burned...
DIED. Cevdet Sunay, 82, President of Turkey from 1966 to 1973; of a heart attack; in Istanbul. A cautious architect of political compromise, Sunay helped preserve Turkey's fragile democracy during a turbulent period when the military and parliament frequently clashed...
...police are after him, suspecting him of murder. Some renegade CIA agents are also in nasty pursuit, convinced he helped repossess some missile plans that they went to a lot of trouble to steal from the Government. No question about it, mild-mannered Architect Michael Jordan (Gene Wilder) has to run for cover. But when he packs his bag, he pauses to match up his socks and then roll them up into prim little balls, just the way his mother taught...
...well-written analysis of the 1982 World's Fair, except for one error. I was not asked to develop a "symbolic tower," nor have I had anything to do with the design of the structure. I have been associated with the job as the project architect involved in the drawing and construction phases only...