Word: fa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan as an old man stumbling and looking horrified at the candidate he is supposed to defeat. The shiny armor was stripped away in the first debate, and the country must have seen what I saw. Reagan is all fa...
...door of the vehicle. I saw the driver fall over. As he fell, he pulled on the wheel and the car swung to the right, hitting a parked vehicle." The van was still 30 ft. from the embassy when it exploded, producing a flash and a deafening roar. The façade of the building collapsed, raining masonry and broken glass over a wide area in the residential district...
...avoided direct attacks on the U.S., but the phrase "sovereign rights," meaning that each country should be able to choose its own population-control program, cropped up repeatedly, even in the statements of industrial nations friendly to the U.S., like Australia and West Germany. In the corridors, however, diplomatic façades gave way to resentful, at times bitter, comments. "The U.S. may be concerned about abortion," said Satpal Mittal, a delegate from India, where an estimated 15 million abortions are performed annually, "but it cannot impose its view on the free world." The U.S. attempt to advocate a capitalist...
...brick apartment house without disturbing it. The solution: a slim, new, 35-story tower that straddles the old building. The new building is abruptly interrupted by a kind of roof garden with a domed swimming pool and a jogging track. Arquitectonica plans to deck out the building's façade in a bold, Mari-mekko-like pattern of white glass, black marble and red-enameled metal...
...Lissitzky) and their predilection for making architecture a kind of artistic engineering. The team's use of bold primary shades suggests the paintings of Mondrian's De Stijl. And some of its whimsy-such as the yellow, finlike balconies that stick out of the Atlantis' glass façade to emphasize its entrance-recalls...