Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most expensive Japanese building ever -- too big and too expensive, his critics say. Even more disconcerting to many of Tange's peers is the building's design: with its split tower, ersatz campaniles and creme brulee surface of glass-and-granite panels, it would be a postmodern monument -- Notre Dame redesigned by Gaudi and enlarged to monstrous proportions. "Tange's city hall is garish," says Architect Takefumi Aida, "so much so that it would end up looking like a symbol of Japan as a nouveau riche state. I can't stand...
Sisters, meanwhile, have joined the laity in proclaiming women's grievances. A new round of rage could occur later this year if, as expected, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur bow to Vatican pressure and oust Sisters Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey of Charleston, W. Va. Since signing a 1984 newspaper ad, they have refused to stop advocating a pro-choice abortion stance. Chicago's Sister Margaret Traxler, who also signed that ad, intends to organize a nuns' strike if they are expelled. Says she: "It's difficult for the Pope and bishops suddenly in this day to realize...
...Notre Dame gym, lean, well-conditioned gymnasts are performing difficult maneuvers on the flying rings and the parallel bars. Obviously, they are athletes. No first-time observer of this Olympics for the mentally handicapped would wonder why they are competing. At the gym's other end, however, the scene takes the first-timer farther from the familiar, with a floor exercise called "rhythmic ribbons." One by one, young women, most of them shaped by the rough hand of Down's syndrome and all of limited physical ability, walk or run slowly over a patterned course, swirling a long ribbon tied...
...Olympics. Eunice Shriver is said to despise public speaking, but her speech was a brief, clear moment in an overlong and somewhat celebrity-clogged opening ceremony. She spoke of the "courageous spirt and the generous heart," and then she told the 5,000 mentally handicapped athletes gathered in Notre Dame Stadium that they had earned the right to live like the rest of us, and with the rest...
...Dame comes up at your elbow. Enough makeup to make Tammy Faye look like a Breck girl. Says in a voice like a mule eating briars, "Vodka and orange this time -- I'm trying to save my liver." Fires up a Pall Mall. Says, "Who am I kidding? Forget the orange...