Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since there was no reply to this notice within the ten days allotted for comment, the commission met and decided that the windows were not similar enough to those planned in the 18th-century design of the hall...
...Sinfonia from Bach's Cantata #29 known in solo violin, solo organ, full orchestral, and Moog synthesizer versions. The Sinfonia was played brightly by strings and brass only to be let down by the organ. There was not enough bass registration to carry through the Church--in part, a design flaw of the Fisk instrument--but even the upper voices were too thin to compete with such a healthy orchestra. Coupled with a number of fingering lapses in an admittedly difficult part, the Sinfonia was still exciting--but it could have been much better...
...Democrat who only recently recovered from critical bullet wounds sustained in a street robbery. Stennis would be given "unlimited access" to the tapes to verify Nixon's account of them, according to this plan. The selection of Stennis was perhaps the only unflawed element in Nixon's design. To his colleagues, it was inconceivable that he would have anything to do with a scheme to mislead the Senate. It might be argued that Nixon's offer to let Stennis judge the tapes was the most powerful evidence yet that they may indeed exonerate Nixon...
...every junction is the vehicle of his meticulousness, proclaiming that a millimeter's change in the thickness of a mullion flange would read as a loss. The ground-floor film and lecture theater, with its black seats and dark teak rear wall, is a jewel of sober, lucid design. But on the large scale, all this is lost. Apart from the Houston Astrodome, one could barely imagine a less sympathetic space for showing art than Mies' vast curving hall, longer than a football field and 22 ft. high. "It's like trying to make the rotunda...
...motel's architect was not dismayed by this turn of events. He continued to refine his skyscraper design, which he said would "blend in very well with the architecture of Harvard Square...