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...fall through, don’t forget about Stanford. The folks in Palo Alto need a coach now, too, since Willingham left for South Bend. This might be the best fit of all for Murphy. Seeing as Stanford’s nickname is the Cardinal (the color, not the bird), Murphy’s experience guiding a team named for a shade of vermilion would likely also weigh heavily in the minds of the selection committee...
...rose to fame as a movie star and then garnered infamy as a President. Of his legendary appetites, for women, drink, gambling, food, he can now only assuage the latter. And while he sits before a table groaning with his favorite dishes?plates of lechon and cheese, vats of bird-fetus soup and sweet rice-paper rolls, all hustled across town from the fully staffed kitchen of his family home?he tries to conjure his old enthusiasm, to reawaken the fire that he rode to his populist successes. And for a few moments, as he takes up again the role...
...Long Island, he composed a musical for the boys to put on, and late that summer "Yip Yip Yaphank" transferred to Broadway. The show had a couple of hits: "Mandy" and "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," which Sgt. Berlin performed himself. The notorious night bird took special pleasure in the song?s wryly sociopathic lyrics: "Someday I'm going to murder the bugler;/ Someday they're going to find him dead./I?ll amputate his reveille,/ And stomp upon it heavily,/ And spend the rest of my life...
...showstopping new addition for the Milwaukee Museum of Art. His low-slung extension is crowned by a supreme statement, the upward arc of his brise de soleil. It's a sunscreen with "wings" made of 72 steel-pipe ribs. They rise and fall from a diagonal spine like a bird on an ascending flight path. Technically, Calatrava's great wings are functional--when closed they shield the museum's arching skylight. In fact, their real function is pure glorious gesture, a flourish of structural brio. When opened their lovely wingspan gives the museum a stratospheric silhouette and Milwaukee a stunning...
...showstopping new addition for the Milwaukee Museum of Art. His low-slung extension is crowned by a supreme statement, the upward arc of his brise de soleil. It's a sunscreen with "wings" made of 72 steel-pipe ribs. They rise and fall from a diagonal spine like a bird on an ascending flight path. Technically, Calatrava's great wings are functional - when closed they shield the museum's arching skylight. In fact, their real function is pure glorious gesture, a flourish of structural brio. When opened their lovely wingspan gives the museum a stratospheric silhouette and Milwaukee a stunning...