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...more than a hundred of these houses, to which he applied Samuel Butler's term Usonian (derived from the initials U.S.). Their architecture was intended to embody the spirit of democracy as Wright saw it, a spirit of close-to-nature individualism and hearth-centered family life. The exterior of the two-bedroom house shows mostly an unassuming brick wall. It has no attic, porch or basement, and its core consists of a single spacious, harmonious unit of living room, dining room and kitchen, focused on the fireplace...
Nowhere is the art of getting trashed better practiced than at the Hong Restaurant (1236 Mass. Ave.), its glaring pink exterior unmistakable. Go upstairs past the off-duty cop and the slightly tipsy, muscle-bound bouncer and find mass inhalation of the famed Scorpion Bowl. The Kong also features scores of foreign beers, and the hardy can try to join the 69 Club, by consuming 69 different types of beer in a set period of time. Prices are steep, and after several $7-plus Scorpion Bowls, your wallet may cease to exist...
Another daily described the forthcoming event as a "venture to the exterior." The excitement was caused by Prime Minister P.W. Botha's 16-day trip to Western Eu rope, the most ambitious journey under taken by a South African leader in almost 40 years. The purpose of the trip, which is taking Botha to Portugal, Switzerland, Britain, West Germany, Belgium, France, Austria and perhaps Italy: to move South Africa a bit further from the limbo to which its apartheid policies have condemned it for the past generation...
...synagogue itself, on the exterior, stunk of decay like many of the other buildings in Leningrad, but the opulence and beauty displayed inside the temple was surprising. Candles were everywhere. Ornately carved, well kept wooden benches lined the room. Painted white pillars towered throughout the room...
Even so, it was a surprising jump. Morgan, the son of a successful oil executive, had aimed at the top of a business career from the time he left college. He had a single-minded determination that was often concealed beneath an exterior of rumpled suits and scuffed shoes that might have been more appropriate for a distracted economics professor rushing to class. Yet after 20 years with the same company, Morgan left. He says he looked at himself in the mirror after accepting the job, smiled and thought out loud, "Why, you little demon...