Word: beacon
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Cambridge's most prominent representatives on Beacon Hill are opposed to the idea...
...photograph, from sometime in the late 1980s, pictures him smiling with State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) and former Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn...
Both supporters and critics of the 37-year-old state representative from Beacon Hill say it will take heavy campaigning for Roosevelt to defeat his only declared primary opponent, state Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge). And it will be even more difficult for Roosevelt to successfully challenge the heavily-favored Republican incumbent, Gov. William F. Weld...
Braude, the executive director for the Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts (TEAM), said the two candidates already committed to run, State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) and State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill), fall short of the needs of the state's Democratic constituents...
Today almost every big-city downtown has new skyscrapers that endeavor to look like old skyscrapers. Almost every suburb has a shopping center decorated with phony arches, phony pediments, phony columns. Two decades after Venturi proposed, with the intellectual's standard perverse quasi-affection, that Vegas could be a beacon for the nation's architecture, his manifesto had transformed America. Forget the Bauhaus and your house -- it is the Vegas aesthetic, architecture as grandiose cartoon, that has become the American Establishment style. And so the splendidly pyramidal new Luxor and cubist new MGM Grand (both the work of local architect...