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...House for the John Brown Family, the current exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The house, named Windshield after the large amounts of glass used in its construction, has achieved more fame for its ill-fate than its revolutionary design. Completed in 1938, the house stood as a beacon of modern design for a mere week before it was significantly damaged by a hurricane. The house was rebuilt by 1939, but was consumed by a fire on New Year’s Eve in 1973, never to be rebuilt. As such, Windshield represents the Atlantis of modern domestic architecture...
Frances: a Beacon Hill native and frequent traveler in sweltering, mysterious, Spanish-speaking locales. A drinker of Bombay Sapphire gin and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Seen on a post-Sunday brunch stroll with distinguished parents. Seen on a Thursday-night binge with associates of questionable character at Whitney’s bar. Not surprising, then, Frances’ four-year love affair with FM, the weekly collision of high and low culture, sophistication and vulgarity, mètier and booya. Her commitment unquestioned, her sanity less certain, Frances was our raging, deadline-enforcing maniac, our late-night production ass-kicker...
Goodwin suggested that the future “promises to be once more a turbulent and exhilarating time,” and said she hoped the “IOP will be where it has always been—a beacon of light, of promise, of memory...
...Leader Kim Jong Il. But Pyongyang's propaganda machine?now on the Net!?bravely soldiers on, reporting five or six major news events every day. (Recent samples: "Many Goat Farms Appear," "Rare Squid," "Reception Given at Russian Consulate General.") Now comes a ray of hope?no, make that a beacon of an incontrovertibly glorious future! In August, Kim visited a coal-mining machinery factory at Ranam, in the country's north, and found that production was 12% above target. (Which isn't bad considering that lots of factories in North Korea are idle because there are no spare parts.) Last...
...blowout in markets and catalyzed the crash in consumer sentiment. So rather than a long and frustrating U-shaped bottom, we're getting a jolting V. In Japan, which has no margin to absorb shocks, the V will be particularly sharp going down. China will stand out like a beacon of light in Asia as its economy grinds ahead...