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would be a "great asset to medieval studies...
...million in the first 25 days of release. The cheeky trio made Disney a major movie studio and Midler Hollywood's top female attraction. Rhapsodizes Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Walt Disney Studios, who recently signed her to a three-picture production deal: "Bette Midler is the single greatest asset as a performer we have." Asset? You Bette! You're the company's hottest female star since Minnie Mouse...
...INSTITUTION IShere forever. Henry Rosovsky's infamous words stand as the administration's credo, with some justification. After 350 years the institution has become as immortal as anything American. It has also become intangible, arrogant and monolithic to the students and alumni who contstitute its greatest asset...
...American city since Louis Kahn's 1972 Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Its chief exhibition spaces are under the courtyard level, lit from above by beautifully proportioned groups of pyramidal skylights. In this way Isozaki has made the subtlest possible use of Los Angeles' main natural asset, its clear and candid light. No architect in America, not even Kahn himself, has reflected more sensitively on space and natural light in their relation to works of art. Isozaki's use of materials, especially the white, curved, fused- glass paneling and the rugose red skin of Indian sandstone with which...
...pitched itself as the birthplace of the "New South," mixing a ride on the city's modern subway with mint juleps, barbecue and country music in an antebellum mansion at Stone Mountain. Atlanta turned Native Son Jimmy Carter, not the most popular figure in the Democratic Party, into an asset. The highlight of the trip turned out to be a VIP tour of the Carter Presidential Center, after which the former President treated the committee to a quiche-and-grits brunch...