Word: designer
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...disease. Researchers hope eventually to sort out alcoholics according to the neurochemical bases of their addiction and treat them accordingly. "We are still trying to map out these neurochemical systems," says Edgehill Newport's Wallace. "If we succeed, then it is likely that we will be able to design treatments." A.A. and other groups may always be necessary to help alcoholics assess the psychological and emotional damage of chronic drinking, but there is hope that medicine may make the course to sobriety less perilous...
Indeed, the act of preservation -- poking around an old building, studying half-forgotten design principles up close, figuring out how to put the structure right, buttressing, straightening, sanding, replastering, painting -- is profoundly instructive. Restoring a 19th century house makes thoughtful architects and planners think differently about how they design new buildings and new neighborhoods. "The great value of doing preservation in our office," says Architect James Stewart Polshek, whose firm restored Carnegie Hall, "is that it helps reinforce in young architects an attitude about the way buildings still could be built...
...alert. He almost redeems the film's long middle passage with a scene showing the Emperor crooning Am I Blue? for his courtiers in exile. And the film's concluding sequence, so clear, so inevitable, should not be spoiled by discussion. Very simply, Bertolucci has found an elegance of design and execution that few of his contemporaries could even dream of. One can almost see him running through the Forbidden City, his imagination fevered by its splendor, his ambitions running high, as Pu Yi's never did. He is the movie epic's last emperor...
...have had a monumental change of heart. They have rediscovered the virtues of city centers, many of which, 20 years ago, were left for dead. The result: scores of neighborhoods, hundreds of grand landmarks and thousands of more modest old buildings are being brought joyously back to life. See DESIGN...
Fitch said the room's design also stands as an acknowledgement of the creators' respect for Harvard Film Archive Curator Vlada K. Petric, senior lecturer of Visual and Environmental Studies, who is helping to arrange the film viewings...