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...Lift” is a presentation of four current architectural commissions by GSD Visiting Design Critic Michael Maltzan, a young Los Angeles-based architect. Maltzan will also deliver this year’s Eliot Noyes Lecture in Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, on Wednesday...
Maltzan, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the GSD, has returned to the GSD this semester as a visiting design critic. Before beginning his own firm, he worked for architect Frank Gehry as an designer for the winning competition entry for the Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall (although the Hall, which opened in Los Angeles last month, bears little resemblance to the original design). Looking at Maltzan’s work, it is clear that Gehry has had a strong influence on his formal and professional maturation as a designer...
...Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The cashier had not deactivated its anti-theft insert, but I couldn't help wondering if the book was screeching at being trapped in the same bag with liberal-bias critic Bernard Goldberg's best seller Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite. (One Franken chapter is titled "I Bitch-Slap Bernie Goldberg.") "Let me desensitize Mr. Franken for you," the guard said...
...father: tall, pale and skinny. In Carol Loeb Shloss's Lucia Joyce (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 560 pages), she emerges as shy but clever, a bright, pretty girl and a witty mimic. Lucia became a dancer. Her work was by all accounts strange and fascinating--"totally subtle and barbaric," one critic wrote. But her promise was never fulfilled. As she grew from an adolescent to a woman, her life took a darker turn. She fell in love with a succession of men--among them the sculptor Alexander Calder and the writer Samuel Beckett--each of whom left her newly heartbroken. Although...
...managers of the company's Italian subsidiary and asked them some tough questions about the feel-good business trend of the year: corporate social responsibility. "Is this a new era of capitalism?" he asked. "Or is it hypocrisy in action, a cynical response to the company's critics?" A lot of people - inside and outside business - are wondering the same thing. Welcome to Big Oil's latest innovation: the ethics road show. Total, one of the world's top five oil companies - formed by Total's 1999 merger with Belgium's Petrofina and then with French rival Elf Aquitaine...