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...designs to rival the dominant idioms of 18th century Georgian and 19th century Beaux-Arts by the Potomac? There was not much to see. The preferred manner, in a low-horizon city dominated by L'Enfant's neoclassical plan, was Beaux-Arts thinly covered with a "modernist" veneer: the cake minus the icing. From the postwar office blocks to the alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the past 30 years of Washington architecture have been a prolonged failure of the bureaucratic imagination. There have been one or two notable exceptions, such...
...Maazar Palace in Riyadh, a black-tied maitre d'hôtel supervised waiters in white robes who on this occasion served Q, meal consisting of asparagus soup, fried shrimps with tartar sauce, kebabs with cooked vegetables, a ragout of okra, meat and rice with almonds, chocolate cake, watermelon and fruit. Most of the guests were not from Saudi Arabia's upper class; many appeared to be desert tribesmen. There was no ceremony at the table, and no distinction between rich and poor. A few guests finished quickly and left without so much as glancing at their host...
...invasion of Army was easy to repel, the landing of the Big Red was a real cake walk. The Crimson lost only one set Saturday afternoon as Harvard put down the Lake Cayouga revelers...
...indication that their marriage, on its own terms, is anything less than happy. "Paul and I both share a way of life," she says. "People think that if you have lots of money, you miss all the good things. But I guess we've got our cake, and eat it too." Paul calls Virginia home, and on weekends he rides as much as he can. Last month, riding on a mount called Christmas Goose, he won, for the fourth year, Virginia's famous 100-mile ride, a three-day exercise that is meant to test the endurance...
...without further delay." The same day, mock birthday parties for the bill were being celebrated by members of both the House and the Senate. On the House side, Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona and fellow Republicans carved up a large doughnut that was meant to symbolize a birthday cake for a bill with a hole in it. A mixed group of Democratic and Republican Senators had their own party, complete with a cake adorned by a turkey. Said South Dakota's James Abourezk: "We are meeting in thanksgiving that the various turkeys trotted out by the natural...