Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend Harrison about a police investigation of the call-girl ring. Soon after, according to the IRE series, the police investigation of Harrison abruptly stopped; when the case had died down two years later, tape recordings of Harrison's meetings with prostitutes were ordered destroyed. Police sources charged a cover-up, but no further police investigation was made. The state bar has since refused to discipline former president Harrison, and former Attorney General Nelson was cleared by another government inquiry. Nearly two years after being exposed in the IRE series, Harrison is still a prominent and influential attorney in Phoenix...
...Trade Center look good." Hughes lives happily in a 2,300-sq.-ft. loft-his "plywood palazzo"-but, when pressed, he picks the man to design his dream house: New York's Richard Meier, whose work he analyzes in this week's story. And Hughes would have Cover Subject Philip Johnson whip up a "gazebo-cum-study...
...Researcher Sara Medina lives in a renovated brownstone apartment that she describes as "almost a dream house: it has a skylight, a graceful stair well and lots of light and space." Its only disadvantage is that it was not designed by her favorite architect-her husband. Working on the cover story, Medina gained a new appreciation of "the 'white world' of architects and their square boxes." We know you will understand and appreciate them better, too, after reading Bob Hughes' informed and graceful judgments on the artists who work with stone, steel and wood to create...
...simple factory-made curtain walls. It was a justification for cheapness that took over our cityscapes, and that is what you see in New York today." The universal glass box, cut-rate Mies (for real Mies was real architecture, and too expensively finished for most developers to tolerate), would cover any function: airport, bank, office block, church, club. It tended to be what the Germans labeled Stempelarchitektur, rubber-stamp building. Thus a debased form of Modernist dogmatism, what Charles Jencks called "the rationalization of taste into clichés based on statistical averages of style and theme," turned...
...Diego crash even more horrifying than most major accidents. Parts of bodies were strewn over lawns, houses and roads, and police said they could not walk down the street without stepping on human tissue. Emergency personnel were overwhelmed. They spent their first minutes in a semi-daze, trying to cover up the bloodiest scenes. Police who arrested people-for taking airplane parts or for not leaving the scene of a disaster-coped better. For such officers, says Psychologist Steven Padgitt, "there was some sense of purpose, some sense of being able to express the rage they were experiencing...