Word: calmes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With his work of the 1980s, as complicated as ever but no longer perverse, Gehry has accomplished an extraordinary synthesis of the common and the profound. Now that he allows a measure of classicist calm to seep into his work, he may no longer be written off as an idiosyncratic California bad boy. Gehry must be regarded as one of the two or three most important members of the late-modernist generation -- and maybe the most successful formal innovator...
...sooner had the meeting been announced than the usually calm, almost phlegmatic capital (pop. 87,000 -- about the size of Sioux City, Iowa) began madcap preparations for the onslaught of some 1,500 journalists and White House and Kremlin staffers who are to accompany President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev. Reykjavik's several hundred rental cars were immediately snapped up, and the hardy Icelanders, whose unyielding environment has taught them to take advantage of every opportunity, began offering private cars for rent...
Daniloff's plane touched down about 40 minutes after a Soviet Aeroflot jet carrying Zakharov had left Washington for Moscow. On Tuesday the calm and dapperly dressed Zakharov had stood before Judge Joseph McLaughlin in Brooklyn's federal courthouse and changed his plea on charges of espionage from not guilty to no contest. The Soviets had agreed that if the first two espionage charges against him were dropped, Zakharov would be put on five years' probation for the third count, provided that he quit the U.S. within 24 hours. Zakharov, like Daniloff, seemed to relish his moment in the media...
...power of societal assumptions, rather than strictly legal logic, in judicial decisions. There was a consistent body of judicial reasoning and precedent that yielded each of the contradictory rulings. The difference, however, was an assumption--in this case the stigma attached to a certain disease--which swayed the calm courtroom logic...
After last week's currency arm twisting, some such gesture might be needed to add a semblance of calm to the world monetary scene. As Robert Hormats, a vice president at the Goldman Sachs investment firm, puts it, "If some greater perception of unity doesn't come out of these meetings, the markets will be in turmoil." Most money traders probably felt that they had had quite enough turmoil already...