Word: architects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billed it as "a brilliant book marking a period of great historical change." Its publication, declared the people's daily, was "a major event in the political life of the party." From across the country, provincial leaders sent messages extolling the author as "the Helmsman" and "the Chief Architect," encomiums that were once reserved for Mao Tse-tung. In bookstores Chinese readers snapped up 2 million copies on the first day of sale, and the first printing of 12 million quickly sold...
HABS is the brainchild of Philadelphia Architect Charles E. Peterson, 77. In 1933, Peterson suggested it to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, partly as a way to provide jobs for unemployed architects, draftsmen and photographers. Ickes immediately accepted the proposal, and in two weeks' time 1,200 such professionals were hired for six months under the auspices of the New Deal's Civil Works Administration...
...longer exist." Defense of American policy by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl gets short shrift. Attacks on the Reagan Administration's commitment to peace by top Social Democrats are reported in full, except for a failure to note that former Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a principal architect of the missile-deployment plan. Led by Spiegel, the leftist periodicals have depicted the U.S. as a nation of knee-jerk militarists, and simultaneously have managed to find the Soviets flexible and reasonable. Said...
...Helmet. It consists of a clear plastic dome, enclosing the head, into which filtered, pollen-free air is wafted at low pressure. The battery-powered fan, electrostatically charged filter and helmet weigh about 4 Ibs. and are attached to the body by a harness or belt. The inventor, British Architect Richard Hinchliffe, 45, himself a longtime hay fever sufferer, claims that wearing the helmet for 30 minutes can provide a half-day's relief. Self-conscious sufferers, Hinchliffe suggests, can "customize their helmets with headsets or Deely Bobbers." Some 535 HHHS have been sold...
...convention facilities and a 15-story hotel tower, circling a sunken court lined with shops. The rock garden and waterfall are stylized Japanese. The architecture is playful postmodern with the now standard affectations and allusions to Palladian renaissance. But Isozaki's stylishness is not random. Only a Japanese architect and his craftsmen could use materials as diverse as titanium-glazed tile, glass terrazzo, onyx, inlaid marble of different colors, and gold and silver doorknobs to create an effect of subtlety and restraint...