Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...muses. To walk down the river terrace, with its 630 feet of polished white Carrara wall monotonously glittering like a new kitchen, past the finned, bronze-anodized columns and the regimented shrubs, is an experience of failed pomp. There is an absence of human scale. Undifferentiated bays crash repetitively like boots on a parade ground. There is even the look of an inflated Greek temple, 20 times life size. Above all, the Center has an absolute lack of plasticity in space and detail. The halls and theaters are simply boxes-large boxes, to be sure, but they could hardly...
...with the problem of regulating sex." But like an old man whose sight is going, the great critic prefers to peer close round himself, to take an avuncular interest in pretty Mary Pcolar, the housewife who teaches him Hungarian, to listen to old Albert Grubel tot up local car-crash victims. The brain is still inquisitive, the descriptive skill sure as ever, but the time for exploring seems to be past. #183; Charles Elliot
...year. The trouble is that the Alliance has fallen far short of its own noble goals. "The Alliance raised high hopes that Washington was not prepared to fulfill," says the head of a Peruvian research organization. "Many Latins soon realized that the Alliance was just John Kennedy's crash reaction to Fidel Castro...
Inalienable Snobbery. One immediate problem that faced Smith's Plungers was genuine derelicts, who proved that snobbery is inalienable to human nature. "I'd run into a wino," recalls Peter Dahm, "and say, 'Man, I need a place to crash. I need some bread. Where can I cop some work?' The language would really turn him off. It's the language of street kids, and the real down-and-outer doesn't speak it. In general, they didn't appreciate me at all. But at least they stopped asking me for money." Frank...
...American-history buff, he would like to direct a series of films about each decade since 1920; they will show the cultural extremes that can exist in the same era. He is currently writing a scenario for the first one, about a Wyoming farmer who rescues from a plane crash an urbane couple modeled after F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...