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...Depending on the franchise and how they construct the system, and barring any unforeseen types of things, my guess is that roughly one year after they start constructing, the city will be nearly wired," said Electronics Professor A. A. Pandiscio, who currently overseas Harvard's two existing cable systems...
Muse and others have their suggestions for dealing with congestion. One is to construct more airports. "If the highways are crowded," says Phil Bakes, president of Continental Airlines, "the role of the Government is to build more roads, not to tell people what time to go to and from work." But not one major U.S. airport has been built in the past ten years, despite a 50% increase in passenger traffic; local opposition to increased noise levels is stalling sorely needed expansion of at least a dozen existing facilities...
Since the Holyoke Center is crumbling away after only 15 years, and thousands are being expended to repair its bleak, Brutalist facade, it occurs to me that the University, in all its puissance, has a felicitious opportunity to join the M.B.T.A. in upgrading Harvard Square: why not construct a massive neo-Georgian veneer over the building to conceal forever the cold concrete and steel form that is so reminiscent of the very worst of post-war Britain. Dr. T.C. Bardwell
...Monaco digs are hypermodern, done predominantly in the bright style of the innovative designers known as the Memphis group. The setting, like Lagerfeld's fashion, is both nervy and funny: a silk-cushioned "conversation pit" shaped like a boxing ring, an etagere that looks like a Lego construct built by an LSD casualty. The Paris house is heavily antiqued. "The most perfect moment in France for me was the 18th century," Lagerfeld says. Over in Brittany he has imported fountains, even torn down stands of trees, to restore the house to its original glory. "Anybody who saw him there...
...this smart dumb guy, into the svelte body of a comic-movie hero. It has not always been a snug fit. In Pennies from Heaven he was gung-ho but overwhelmed by the musical machinery; in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid he got lost in a clever construct of old movie clips. By the time The Man with Two Brains came out, Martin's stand-up audience had deserted him. A pity: they missed a small, funny film that provided, in its Frankenstein plot of a surgeon in love with the body of one woman...