Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural that Diane Legge Lohan, being a partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Chicago office, designs rather conventionally modern corporate buildings. But in her printing plant for the Boston Globe newspaper she has managed the improbable. With a long, gorgeous, barrel-vaulted main hall in particular, Lohan has again made industrial modernism beautiful -- and without a bit of frippery. W.G. Clark and Charles Menefee have accomplished their own unlikely feat with the cool, cool Middleton Inn: here are glass houses that delight as glass houses have not delighted in a generation. Overlooking a South Carolina river, the inn boasts rooms...
...which cost taxpayers millions of dollars, was a prime example of congressional intervention in arms purchases, based almost solely on parochial, pork-barrel politics. While Northrop supporters noted that the competition had forced General Dynamics to offer a streamlined F-16 at $3.5 million less than the normal $12.5 million, Northrop had gambled more than $1 billion on its F-20. Only three of the Tigersharks were built; two crashed during demonstration flights...
...temporary pact, which holds only through the end of the year, did not impress oil traders. After the announcement, the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate Crude fell from $15.19 to close the week at $15.02. OPEC must meet again in December to set 1987 production levels, and many analysts think the current agreement may collapse, perhaps sending the price of oil back below...
...does not care either. Never do we see the aftermath of Arnold's mayhem. Bodies fall out of the camera shot and out of mind as well--few screams, a little blood for color, no pain, no grief. The camera moves on to the next victim, like the gun barrel...
...even caught myself passing up The Godfather and "10" at the video rental place for a tape called "Automatic Golf." The tape consists of a barrel-chested pro demonstrating a grip so convoluted that he swears it makes perfect golf swings inevitable...