Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disorienting as if William ("the Refrigerator") Perry were to announce he was switching from football to tennis. For almost two decades Kissinger and foreign affairs have been synonymous, and it was hard to imagine Candidate Henry working the boardwalk at Coney Island or milking a cow at the state fair. So it was scarcely surprising when he announced last week that he had decided to stick to the global path rather than explore the campaign trail...
Some of the 1986 arches allude explicitly to that extravagant era when follies proliferated; some are simply giddy. Their very existence seems fair evidence that a new gilded age is under way. For even though the seven architects (Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli, Stanley Tigerman, Michael Graves, Helmut Jahn and Texans Boone Powell and Eugene Aubry) worked for free, the arches cost $35,000 to $70,000 apiece; the budgets had been $25,000. Fortunately for Galvestonians, the project has deep-pocket private patrons...
Moore has developed a subspecialty in this sort of high-camp Gulf ephemeron: for New Orleans he designed the Piazza d'Italia and the snazziest part of the 1984 World's Fair. His Galveston arch, a pair of towers connected by wire mesh, is more of the same, a flibbertigibbet accretion of painted waves, plywood sea creatures, banners, arches, gables, windows, lights, action. Aubry's rigid canopy of pleated gold fiber glass, topped by a big wooden fish, is baffling but unequivocally vulgar--like kitsch from another planet, or a collaboration between Claes Oldenburg and Cher. Powell's arch, with...
...contest could never really have been called fair. On one side was an ailing but wily autocrat, whose authority was waning but whose hands remained firmly clenched around the levers of political power. On the other was an unassuming but determined housewife-crusader, whose political resources were meager but whose brief and meteoric candidacy had fanned the desire of millions of her countrymen for political change. What had kept the mismatched sides in balance during the course of their 57-day election battle was a promise as potent in appeal as it was frail in prospect. The hope was that...
...problem of having a separate tribunal to hear charges against political activists, will preserve the advantages of the Ad Board's current system and will guarantee to students something that should have been guaranteed them long ago: namely, that whatever they are accused of doing, they will get a fair hearing at Harvard University...