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...brick and surface details such as window trim and balconies is designed to make the Inn blend into the surrounding traditional buildings, Bechtel says. "It is intended to relate to the existing houses along Mass. Ave. as well as the river," he says...
...life and find out what people are thinking in the place code-named Laskerville. They are eavesdropping at school-board meetings, at the local cafe and even at funerals (they say the eulogies really sum up the town's values). The ad people have gone to great lengths to blend into the scenery, leaving their fancy cars back in Chicago and driving pickup trucks. One agency executive was almost unmasked when a coffee-shop waitress took a good look at her and noted that her expensive hairdo "didn't come from around here." So what matters in Laskerville? "Everything that...
...message was clear. Far from being grateful for the time and money the Tribune Co. had invested, the fed-up employees preferred almost anyone else. Not that Maxwell is just anyone. He is both a buccaneer billionaire and a professed socialist, renowned for a blend of macho charm and armored-tank aggressiveness. A British union leader once ruefully observed, "He could charm the birds out of the trees, then shoot them." Although decorated by British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery for World War II valor and elected in 1964 as a Labour Member of Parliament, Maxwell was involved in a corporate...
...Loesser and Phil Ochs, among others) and screenplay (its Art Deco building on Manhattan's 42nd Street was reporter Clark Kent's workplace in the Superman movies). For the tabloid's fans, Maxwell's moxie may prove congenial. He has shown a shrewd feel for the city's odd blend of worldliness and parochialism. Playing to Manhattanites' penchant for embracing almost any outsider who professes himself instantly smitten with their metropolis, Maxwell arrived by yacht to start negotiations and, before stepping into a waiting Cadillac, spoke the tantric words, "I love New York." Recalling the tradition of the News...
STRAUSS: DER ROSENKAVALIER (London). In this historic 1954 performance of an endlessly ravishing opera, a master conductor (Erich Kleiber), superb singers (Maria Reining, Sena Jurinac and Hilde Gueden) and an outstanding orchestra (the Vienna Philharmonic) blend color, vitality and balance with intelligence and resonant beauty...