Word: farnsworth
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...Seagram Building in New York City, threads of steel outline wide fields of glass to make the tonnage of the upper stories float. His dual apartment towers on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago are as elegantly self-contained as Japanese bento boxes. And his nearly all-glass Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill., is sculpture you can live in--though not if there are neighbors with binoculars...
...office towers topped by medieval crenellations, the dry pieties of Modernism are looking good again. Classic Modernist furniture, including the perennial Barcelona chair that Mies designed in 1929, is back once more as retro chic. And last month the state of Illinois acknowledged the landmark status of the Farnsworth House by agreeing to buy it for $6.2 million from the British Lord Peter Palumbo...
DIED. RICHARD FARNSWORTH, 80, Hollywood's archetypal farmhand and two-time Oscar nominee; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; at his home in Lincoln, N.M. Partly paralyzed from cancer, he became the oldest leading actor last year to receive an Oscar bid, for his role in The Straight Story. He worked as a stuntman in more than 300 films before landing his first significant speaking role in 1976. DIED. WILLIAM BUNDY, 83, patrician counselor to three Presidents, who was a pivotal figure in leading America into the Vietnam War along with his brother McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser under Kennedy...
...June 30, after 26 years as curator of the Poetry and Farnsworth Rooms in the Harvard College Library, Haviaras retired to devote more time to his writing...
...count me as its 6 billionth viewer, or whatever number they claim is slightly higher than the population of the planet. Because I don't care if my favorite actor doesn't win. It's not as if the guy isn't overloaded with babes and money already. Richard Farnsworth is going to be fine. It just takes him a little longer than most people to get going at the urinal...