Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quip when a question of substance touches him too deeply. Charming when he wants to be, he nevertheless harbors an intellectual ferocity that is both ruthless and stimulating. While Nixon has always made the key foreign policy decisions, it is primarily Kissinger who has elaborated the grand design in global relationships-a design based on a balance of power among all the major nations of both East and West-that so intrigues the President...
...capital, of natural gas fields around Yakutsk in Siberia; and 3) construction by Americans of a hotel and trade center in Moscow. All three projects face high hurdles. The hotel-trade center deal is rather vague, but Hammer hopes to put together a U.S. consortium that would arrange all design, construction and financing and turn over completed buildings to the Soviets. The fertilizer transaction, by his estimate, would require an investment of $100 million for an Occidental fertilizer plant in Florida. Counting the cost of tankers to carry the products, the total U.S. investment might have to be $400 million...
Edgar Winters was just here, couldn't have been more than a month ago, because I remember making some witty remark about his new album's cover, surprise winner of last year's "Bad Taste in Album Design" award, just nosing out Mom's Apple Pie. My idea of a good time this last week has been walking the streets with an Edgar Winter--They Only Come Out At Night lapel button, with an eye towards passerby response. It's been minimal. Anyway, celebrate the collapse of another semester with Edgar Winter and scenic Boston's equally scenic James Montgomery...
Robert Bell Reddick's Ten Walking Tours of Cambridge dismisses the building at 14 Plympton Street in about half a sentence, giving short shrift to its "neo-Georgian" design, and saying that Lampy's castle "puts to shame the Crimson Building." Harvard's semi-official book on it own architecture, Education, Bricks, and Mortar, doesn't mention the building at all, Newspaper buildings by and large are rough, functional structures, which serve a practical daily purpose and expedite the production of their publications. Few of them win architecture awards, and none of them can approach in grandeur the Lampoon...
...book notices and exchanges will be written with the design to place before our readers only what is likely to interest them. Generalities are seldom read, and therefore will be omitted in these parts of the paper, and in the column devoted to the theatre as well. From time to time we shall review in a more conspicuous place than usual books that treat of education, or otherwise have a relation to college life...