Word: figs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million U.S. Pavilion suffers from similar mediocrity. It is a six-story structure, designed by Atlanta Architects Finch Alexander Barnes Rothschild & Paschal Inc., that vaguely resembles the Pompidou Center in Paris-with a fig leaf. Pompidou's daringly exposed ducts and pipes are coyly muted. This federal contribution houses energy exhibits. One possible post-fair use for the pavilion is as a University of Tennessee energy research center. But now that acute energy concerns are drowned in the oil glut, other uses also are under discussion...
...virtuous poor will have their rewards, and the evil sinner his punishment. But so long as they are alive on the earth, the injunction is to turn the other check and await God's justice. (Jesus gives the reader a small foretaste of divine righteousness when he curses a fig tree, which promptly withers...
...simple steel and cane Cesca chair, which, like the Wassily, remains a ubiquitous furnishing today. Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937 to teach at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where his students included Edward Larrabee Barnes, Ulrich Franzen, Paul Rudolph and I.M. Pei. A leading fig ure in the International style of architecture, Breuer designed such distinguished buildings as the IBM Research Center in La Gaude, France, the St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., and the Whitney Museum in New York City. "Buildings should not be moody, but reflect a general, durable quality," he once...
...must take more than a recession to dampen demand for English rhubarb and fig preserves or reindeer meatballs from Norway. Though inflation has forced supermarket shoppers to cut corners and frantically clip coupons, gourmet food shops that cater to the sophisticated palate have never been busier...
...over a spaghetti dinner like Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu, stabbing stray meatballs on others' plates with birdlike speed; Francis excoriating his family and friends and demolishing his birthday cake; his father describing the day his wife left home, whereupon he took a pickaxe, smashed the sidewalk, and planted a fig tree that has grown into a majestic symbol of le Beau Geste...