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Famous as a strict grammarian and a proponent of clarity in academic writing, Knowles is known for his attention to detail in Faculty matters and being second only to Fox in his ability to manuever through the parliamentary procedure of Faculty meetings...
...free sample from the KnowX database listed six lawsuits in which the Senator is named, a dozen lien records and four filings under the Uniform Commercial Code. (Unfortunately, there are no bankruptcies on file; these are usually good sources of home addresses and Social Security numbers.) To get more detail I had to pay: $3.48 for a single record or $15 for a multirecord discount...
...middle of a tight Senate race between Kerry and Weld--Blum's testimony was news, you would have thought. But neither the New York Times nor the Los Angeles Times mentioned Blum in its stories about the hearings, and only the Washington Post covered his testimony in detail. Though the Los Angeles Times reported some of what Blum had to say in an earlier story, the noncoverage of the Senate hearing, says Peter Kornbluh, of the National Security Archives, based in Washington, "raised the specter of a government-media collaboration to bury the contra-cocaine story...
...about architecture, he should be known to most people today by one phrase: "Form follows function." It became the motto of all functionalist designers, but it doesn't represent Sullivan's own ideas at all. He wasn't antidecoration. He was, rather, one of the greatest designers of decorative detail, in an age that excelled in it. But he insisted on the primacy of the main masses. Both this and the love of inventive detail would form the youthful imagination of his protege, the cranky, overbearing genius who remains the outstanding American architect of the 20th century, Frank Lloyd Wright...
...technology that brought digitized dinosaurs to life in Jurassic Park has not advanced considerably, Spielberg notes, "but the artistry of the creative computer people has--they graduated from freshmen to the senior class by making movies like Casper and Jumanji. There's better detail, much better lighting, better muscle tone and movement in the animals. When a dinosaur transfers weight from his left side to his right, the whole movement of fat and sinew is smoother, more physiologically correct." Adds Industrial Light & Magic computer-graphics ace Dennis Muren: "We built the instrument for the first movie; on this...