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With its towers, gaps and controlled riot of swooping curves, the new American Center in Paris unmistakably bears the mark of its designer, California architect Frank Gehry. Gehry's first famous building was his Santa Monica home -- a modest Dutch colonial, transformed so provocatively with corrugated metal, glass and chain link fence that it actually drew gunfire from an irate neighbor. Ever since, Gehry has specialized in the tumbling, disjointed style known as deconstructivism. Though more conservative than his usual projects, the Paris building is still a characteristic and handsome achievement. Within this stylish envelope, the architect has accommodated...
...than $100,000 to investigate women who were making claims about relationships with Clinton. So protective of Clinton was Wright during the campaign that other top campaign officials were offended by her proprietary attitude. Her campaign style was abrasive and included dervish-like activity, crying jags, yelling fits and chain smoking. Not ready for prime time, she was pushed out of Clinton's inner circle by the time the transition began...
...went to Harvard and made a dazzling debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25; he conquered Broadway with West Side Story and then endured the musical catastrophes of Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; he abandoned his long-suffering wife Felicia and spent his last years as the chain-smoking, emphysema-racked Yoda of the Dakota apartment building in New York City. Bernstein's life followed the trajectory of a cautionary tale with the lesson, whom the gods would destroy they first give too many talents...
...total number of Denny's "Grand Slam" breakfasts (2 eggs, 2 pancakes, 2 strips of bacon, 2 sausages) that could be purchased with the $54.4 million the restaurant chain agreed to pay last week to settle two racial- discrimination suits
Denying it had a policy of racial discrimination, the Denny's restaurant chain nonetheless agreed to pay a blockbuster $54.4 million to settle class-action charges that it refused to serve black customers or treated them shabbily. A day later, in a $75,000 settlement, the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston publicly apologized for assigning an all-white staff to serve visiting Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha...