Word: building
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...declared that Philadelphia would have to share his services with other leading musical organizations; indeed, later this year he will also become director of Milan's La Scala opera house. Muti even voiced the heretical notion that the orchestra should abandon its historic home, the Academy of Music, and build a larger hall, better equipped for television and more acoustically suitable to symphonic music. By the time Ormandy died at 85 last March, the Philadelphia sound he had nurtured for so long had practically ceased to exist...
When a woman's life becomes the centerpiece of a media blitz, her death will be fitted into the follow-up campaign, somehow. Stirring exhortations, by President Reagan among others, to continue to build space shuttle technology in the spirit and wake of the Challenger have already begun. Don't be surprised if a new shuttle is christened the "Christa." But, as mass media fitted McAuliffe and crew onto the TV screen and the feature page, the human individuality of those heros was cropped out; they were reduced to the equivalent of television characters...
Congress appropriated $10 million in federal funds for a private high-tech firm to build a supercomputer for Cornell's computer center...
...exception to this misplaced descent into escapism concerns the scene in Which Celie finally severs her ties with Mister, calling him a creep and setting off with Shug to build a new life. For these few minutes, Spielberg achieves the mix of realism and spiritual triumph that elsewhere evades him. The movie ends with a reunion scene between Celie and Nettie, an obvious Spielbergian tear-jerker that would have been pardonable had the rest of the movie followed a different course...
...issue that divided Harvard observers was whether arms talks would be stymied by Reagan's determination to build a space-based missile defense system, known as the Strategic Defense Initiative...