Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreman has told the tale so many times he could do it without thinking; nonetheless, the telling puts him in a sweat. "I was walking in the dressing room, trying to cool down. I was telling myself, 'You don't have to box. You can retire to your ranch and die.' Die? Where did that come from? I didn't put that word in there. But the word kept sneaking into my head. Then a voice said, 'You believe in God. Why you scared to die?' I said, 'I can still give money to charities and cancer,' and the voice...
During the past four months, 300,000 ministers have received a box by mail bearing these words: A GIFT FOR YOU FROM SOME FOLKS WHO CARE. Inside are pamphlets, two books and six hours of doctrinal lectures on videocassettes. The 5-lb. gift packs are part of an extravagant p.r. effort by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's controversial, 45,000-member Unification Church of America...
...Crooked, or asymmetrical, facial expressions are usually deceitful (see box...
...perhaps shuddering a bit at the display of U.S. force near their border. Those tanks, for instance, were manned by soldiers of the Texas National Guard, playing the role of invading Sandinistas for the benefit of Honduran pilots, who carried out mock bombing and strafing runs against them (see box). Officially, the maneuvers are not even war games, just joint "training exercises." Pentagon officials go so far as to insist, with resolutely straight faces, that last week's "tank battle" and next week's amphibious landing are not directly linked...
Hollein has flouted the fetishes of dead-end, blank-box modernism--perhaps out of principle but perhaps also because he could not dream of bridling his ferocious drive to invent and surprise. He seems to create buildings with the spirit other architects might bring to an amusement park. His work at its best is lyrical and joyously jam-packed, smart and sensuous, like a Nabokov story. He believes buildings should even be erotic. In the first of two shops he designed for Schul- lin jewelers in Vienna--a plush, narrow space with an irregular fissure in the gleaming facade...