Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they would like to divide up the world into spheres of influence, but he does not interpret this as a strategy of conquest. "The group in power there is quite cautious," he says. "They're careful about the actions they take. They don't have an overall deliberate design to find ways to put it to the United States...
...Soviet moves through Afghanistan and South Yemen, or at least the moves of Soviet clients, altered that perception. That inevitably decreased the importance of friendship with the United States and emboldened our opponents We simply did not understand that what happened in the Horn of Africa had a geopolitical design, independent of any specific action that the Soviet Union might have undertaken to foment any particular upheaval...
...suddenly showed signs of youthful abandon. She underwent a facelift, retook her maiden name, and declared she would no longer laze around for half the day. So, late last year, the decorous but declining Evening Bulletin (circ. 517,000) rechristened itself the Bulletin and emerged with a crisp new design enlivened by extensive use of color, a greater emphasis on sports and local news and, most important, a new edition on the newsstands by 7 a.m., three hours earlier than before...
...most confident example of the manner is by the Argentine-born architect Cesar Pelli, now dean of the college of art and architecture at Yale. His Pacific Design Center of 1976 has been assimilated into the local folklore of Los Angeles quicker than any building in recent memory, because it is so violently at odds with its flat suburban context. Known as the Blue Whale, it is an immense exhibition hall, the Crystal Palace of the West Coast, providing more than 750,000 sq. ft. of space. The surface is not mirror, but semitranslucent blue glass, which glitters and disappears...
...building in question is the corporate headquarters of the world's largest business, A T & T, to be built in midtown Manhattan. Given its cost of $110 million and the prominence of its site, the building could scarcely fail to provoke argument. But in addition Johnson and Burgee designed it as a summing-up of Post-Modernist building. This prospect fills some architects with skepticism. Says Charles Moore, "Philip's a genius and a gadfly, a delightful tourist. But people's expectations that he would sum up all the currents in architecture today with the A T & T building...