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...Gehry begin to insinuate odd bits of business into his designs: exposed studs and other things that a "properly" finished house would conceal. "I was trying to humanize stuff," he says. "Clients would always ask for buildings that were warm, and I would take notes at our meetings and write, 'Warm again.'" Nice neat modernism was notoriously cool. Raw was his path to warm...
...with the University's capital campaign--Rudenstine's legacy--complete at last, the president has become a lame duck. Inevitably, power and attention will devolve to those around him. And his nearest subordinate, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67, is trying to conceal his eagerness to take the reins...
...same name he once used for a front company in New York--a new opportunity presented itself. Among the employees he had hired was an old acquaintance from New York, Michael Papa, a close friend of Gravano's son Gerard. By this time, Gravano was no longer trying to conceal who he was. In fact, he reveled in the notoriety. In cafes and restaurants, he would talk to whoever would listen about the Mafia and the murders, gaining him a small but loyal following of young, rapt local kids to whom he offered advice and sometimes friendship...
...time party favor salesman. As Kate prepares supper, Blanche struggles with her asthma and tries not to be dependent upon the family which took her in, Laurie exploits her questionable medical condition to avoid helping, Nora dreams of her audition for the new musical extravaganza Abracadabra!, Stanley tries to conceal losing his own job that day and Eugene fantasizes about Nora and her recent "developments." The pressure explodes in an absurd yet well-orchestrated dinner scene over boiled liver and mashed potatoes...
...accidental deaths? Admittedly, guns kill a few children every year (although more drown in pools). But such statistics, in and of themselves, do not account for the amount of crime deterred and thus the number of lives saved by the presence of a gun. Lott concluded that counties without "conceal and carry" laws could have prevented a total of 1,414 murders, 4,177 rapes and 60,363 aggravated assaults by enacting them...