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...hall's century-old Roman brick and terra cotta are suggested on the tower by a skin of brownish and amber brick in five shades, and the molding and cornice lines of Carnegie's beaux arts facade are continued across the front of Pelli's building. The high-rise is wrapped by thick metal bands at six-floor intervals corresponding to the older building's height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Big Yet Still Beautiful | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Shouts of excitement greet the arrival of two Jordanian entrepreneurs driving a pickup truck loaded with ice. A brick-size chunk goes for one Jordanian dinar (about $1.50), and the sellers profit handsomely -- though not as well as they might. Many of the refugees are penniless, forced to leave their life savings behind in Kuwaiti bank accounts long since looted by Iraqi troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: On The Edge of Tragedy | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

Nestled on Albany St. at the edge of the square, a set of red brick buildings marks the beginning of the new Cambridge, a cluster of high-tech firms with names like BASF Bioresearch, Transkaryotic Therapies, and Kurzweil. But next door to the MIT plasma fusion center, at 240 Albany St., lies a complex of two trailers that seems oddly misplaced in this new industrial mecca...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Fighting to Keep A Square Alive | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

...family drives to a big school of red brick. "This was where I went," says Daddy proudly. "In olden days, they made kids go here. But you, Dick and Jane, are so very lucky. You can choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pick A School, Any School | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...nine-month-old Rayvon Jamison was maneuvering his blue-and-white walker toward the refrigerator in his grandmother's kitchen. Suddenly, seven 9-mm bullets ripped through the tin-plated front door, one piercing his tiny body. Rayvon's chilling shrieks of pain shot through the dingy pale brick apartment building in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. His mother Esther scooped up the bleeding child and ran down five flights of stairs and into the street screaming, "They shot my baby! They shot my baby!" Within the hour Rayvon was dead, the innocent victim of a pointless quarrel involving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littlest Victims | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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