Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Drive (pronounced Road-eh-oh) looks like any other shopping street in the fertile crescent of Beverly Hills. The buildings tend to be one-and two-story structures, pastel, neo-Spanish, neo-20th Century-Fox. Even the ficus trees lining the street seem to be part of a grand design by Potemkin. Still, the veteran spendthrift arriving on Rodeo Drive has a sense of déjà vu. No, the street does not possess the discreet elegance of Paris' Rue du Faubourg-St.-Honoré, the stylishness of Rome's Via Condotti or the hustling excitement of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...history into nonsense. Washington: Behind Closed Doors, for all its fictionalizations, presented a symbolically credible portrait of moral chaos in Nixon's White House. Both King and Ruby and Oswald claim to be based on fact -and contain obvious inaccuracies. But such things matter less than the grand design-the overall impression that the facts, both real and suspect, deliver...
...Navy in 1973, Bucher has done a bit of writing and lecturing. His topic on the lecture circuit: "What's Right with America." He has also taken up an old hobby, painting with watercolors, and has enrolled as a full-time student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. "I have a lot of images of the romance of the sea that I would like to capture in paintings," he says. Among them, the Pueblo...
...students mention Memorial Hall's architecture, it is usually in the form of a complaint. Yet now, the design of the building so many have called ugly and an eyesore is celebrated in a forthcoming murder mystery with accompanying illustrations...
...strong dissent, the minority report rejects the idea that "the Holy Spirit contradicts in our experience what He has clearly said in the whole fabric of Scripture." It considers the male-female distinction part of God's design to make human life coherent, concluding that homosexuals have a "distorted or insufficient belief in who they are." Even though all Christians sin in various ways, the minority felt that the church cannot afford to condone a practice that the Bible so clearly rejects: "Neither laypersons nor ministers are free to adopt a life-style of continuing, conscious, habitual and unrestricted...