Word: exteriorizer
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...streets in 1983, automobile buffs waxed ecstatic. The two-door coupe had the sleek lines of a sports car, and its original base price of $7,990 made it comely even to cash-conscious commuters, who did not mind that it had only two seats. A molded plastic exterior and an engine placed just behind those seats to improve handling gave the auto a justifiable reputation for innovative design. But last week parent company General Motors, citing decelerating sales, suddenly slammed the brakes on all future production of the Fiero (the Italian word for proud...
...newspaper's headquarters, stands on its own triangular island where the three streets come together. Built at the turn of the century, Times Tower (now One Times Square) was the odd but lovable younger sister of the classic Flatiron Building a mile down Broadway -- until its terra-cotta exterior was ripped away in favor of a charmless white marble skin in the mid- 1960s. The dowager has been turned into a cheap mummy, yet the disposition of Times Tower remains an architectural cause celebre. Johnson and Burgee once proposed that the building be stripped down to its steel skeleton, gaily...
...ready to open himself further. In Iowa and New Hampshire, he presented himself almost purely as a man whose record was what counted. Now, as he reaches toward the rest of the country, he will have to persuade that great electorate of something more: that his clipped and controlled exterior is only a mask that conceals a more expansive and adventurous and caring self. Americans crave that kind of connection with the person of the President...
...undoubted recent success is James Stirling's multicolored Clore Gallery, a wing of the Tate Gallery, which opened earlier this year as the repository of the Tate's nonpareil J.M.W. Turner collection. Stirling created a well- proportioned and handsome set of viewing rooms with a crisply formal yet amusing exterior, highlighted by a cutaway pediment entrance. As for the National Gallery, after several abortive efforts, including the "carbuncle" debacle, it has settled for restraint: a safe, classically modern stone-faced design by American Architect Robert Venturi for its much needed $63 million extension...
...Mike, the loan shark who is threatening him. Mike is a slick, charming con man, played with great, seedy elan by Joe Mantegna. He shows her some of the tricks of the con man trade, and for the first time in the movie we see Margaret shed her stiff exterior and smile...