Word: downes
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It's taken more than three decades to fill in the blanks on the still-not-quite-completed Dallas arts district. The curtain went up on the master plan in 1977 and nearly went right down the next year when voters rejected a bond issue to fund it. It wasn...
For all that, the buildings came through fine. The exterior of the Wyly is a blunt 11-story box wrapped in a palisade of vertical aluminum tubes. From head-on it looks like a silvery bar code that's been sliced by asymmetrical window slots. Anyone approaching it will be...
The Disney Teen Machine has become a finely tuned profit pump in an industry rife with unpredictability. The result is that Disney's cable networks represent the one slightly solid piece of earth among the entertainment giant's sinking properties. ABC is struggling, sales are way down at Disney's...
Bolivia's challenge now is to maintain the good numbers. The last time Bolivia witnessed a plummet in diarrheal-disease rates was during the cholera outbreak of 1992 and 1993, when better personal-hygiene habits led to a reduction in the spread of infection. But as the threat of the...
AH: Well, I love animals. I have to have them in my life, dogs in particular. I just find them endlessly interesting and funny and moving. In the Al Jolson story, the first story I wrote, I had followed ape language experiments for many years—I just was...