Word: designators
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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historic landmarks, which will complicate the University's plan to raze them. Levitan says he hopes the new building's design will fit in well enough with the surrounding neighborhood to win an exemption...
...single most dazzling object in the show is neither a reliquary nor a painting, nor even a manuscript illumination. It is the chalice made by the Sienese goldsmith Guccio di Mannaia, presented to the Franciscans by Pope Nicholas IV in the late 13th century. In design and workmanship it is more than a masterpiece--it's one of the greatest monuments of medieval art, standing only a little more than nine inches high. Its base, stem and bulb are decorated with some 80 tiny and exquisitely made enamel-glass plaques, representing mythical beasts, evangelists, angels, prophets and apostles. The gold...
...modest relationship with the FBI complicates the already murky case of her husband, Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese-born computer scientist who worked on nuclear-warhead design programs at Los Alamos. In 1995 U.S. intelligence officers learned that China had somehow stolen classified information about the W-88 miniaturized nuclear-warhead program. The ensuing FBI investigation found Wen Ho Lee had violated a number of lab security rules, including failing to report contacts with PRC scientists--lapses for which Department of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson fired him last month...
This off-Broadway theater company, which specializes in second productions of plays that were underappreciated in their first run, has found a second use for an old bank, and many notions of theater design have been turned smartly on their head in the refurbishment. Gone is darkness: the theater has huge dramatic windows; curtains close over them to signal the beginning of a performance. One of the gigantic walk-in safes is now the box office; the other holds safe-deposit boxes (for storing personal items) that will be up for sale. Umbrellas left here should be the safest...
...sort of giving the Mainstage the feeling of a black box," Gfaller says. Black box theatres are flexible in design and can change to fit almost any type of set. Like Harvard's Loeb Ex, most black boxes host experimental, short-run productions...