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...section 797 ft. tall and an estimated construction cost of $780 million, this project would be the biggest, most expensive Japanese building ever -- too big and too expensive, his critics say. Even more disconcerting to many of Tange's peers is the building's design: with its split tower, ersatz campaniles and creme brulee surface of glass-and-granite panels, it would be a postmodern monument -- Notre Dame redesigned by Gaudi and enlarged to monstrous proportions. "Tange's city hall is garish," says Architect Takefumi Aida, "so much so that it would end up looking like a symbol of Japan...
Koppel, for his part, behaved like a circus ringmaster determined to wring every ounce of ersatz drama out of the confrontation in the lion's cage. He pointedly delayed asking the predictable Donna Rice questions. It was all for naught: the answers were unrevealing. Hart persisted in describing Rice as "this attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced...
...beautiful White Russian princess finds herself stuck in unpredictable wartime Berlin. One night it is a piece of suspect schnitzel and a cup of ersatz coffee. The next evening it could be oysters and champagne at the spacious flat of a baron or a count. The years pass, and she discovers that many of the swells with whom she works and plays are part of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler in July...
...pupils to learn reading through greater exposure to engaging narratives like fairy tales, stories and biographies, instead of fill-in-the-blanks "skill sheets" and workbooks. In arithmetic, he presses for an emphasis on problem solving rather than mechanical computation. Instead of a curriculum stuffed with what he terms "ersatz social science," he argues that schools should return to conventional history, geography and civics. He also backs the idea of lengthening the school calendar, perhaps to year-round...
...cool in every sense. In Andy Warhol's first shows, in 1962, he exhibited enormous paintings of Coke bottles and Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. The subject was pop, but determinedly devoid of high-culture anger. Roy Lichtenstein's jumbo cartoon-panel paintings, complete with mawkish dialogue fragments and ersatz Benday dots, were jollier expressions of the same idea...