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...ARISTOTLE: The knowledge of the house is not limited to the builder only. The user, or master, of the house will even be a better judge than the builder, just as the pilot will judge better of a rudder than the carpenter, and the guest will judge better of a feast than the cook...
Counter to Leonidik is Marat, the impetuous dreamer who achieves his goals of becoming war hero and bridge builder, but forgets to find love along the way. In this role, Michael Sacks captures the character's lust for action in the first two acts, but let's down a little in the third. He doesn't quite get at Marat's feeling of emptiness in spite of success, and tends to substitute volume for incisive characterization...
...sweep in the Can-Am marathon, winning five of six races and $165,000 of the total $472,720 award money. Only then did McLaren have 34 of his victorious Mark 6A racers reproduced and sold to competitors-including Dan Gurney, who has quite a reputation as a car builder himself. With that, McLaren set out to build a 1968 model that would show its tail pipes to the 1967s...
Before the Mongols, porcelain was glazed in one color. Under the Yuan rulers, blue-and-white vessels were developed, and became widely popular. One of the 32 pieces in the Cleveland show belonged to the 17th century Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most...
...company originated as a track builder for Western railroads. It undertook dozens of rail projects, notably a 725-mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million...