Word: floridation
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...Singapore, where her team drew up the master plan for a high-tech city on a 200-hectare site, a sort of Singapore Silicon Valley scheduled to take 20 years and something like $15 billion to complete. The diversity of her projects springs from Hadid's ability to marry florid form to nuts-and-bolts function, as in the Leipzig car plant for BMW: Hadid has designed the building around its product. "The entire work force will have to move through one zone to their respective parts, the cars also going through it. There is no split between management, design...
...been a bad week for the Bush administration's anti-Saddam campaign. And that's not because of the Iraqi dictator's florid warning that any U.S. invasion would end in "disgraceful failure." The problem is that Saddam has also made plain his plan to take advantage of Washington's comparative isolation over going war in Iraq by playing hard for the middle ground. The Iraqi leader's speech reiterated offers to negotiate over arms inspections - albeit on his own terms, which so far remain unacceptable to the U.N. But the Iraqi leader knows he can always adjust his position...
Everyone knows the cliches about Latin American art: the outpourings of a region whose landscapes are as vivid as its history is turbulent; the works are florid, exuberant, often politically inspired. But the cliches fall away when one views the work of Brazilian artist Kenji Fukuda, whose creations are as timeless, serene and harmonious as a Japanese rock garden...
...even the loosest definition is the Prime Minister a true outsider. He was born into a political family. His grandfather Matajiro was a construction-crew boss with a full-body dragon tattoo. He lived in Yokosuka, a town on Tokyo Bay. Matajiro's florid oratory and populism won him numerous terms in Parliament. He had no sons, but a protege insinuated himself into the family by marrying the old man's daughter. That man was Junya, the father of Koizumi, and he succeeded Matajiro in Parliament. When he died, he left clear instructions for his eldest son: "Certain victory, Junichiro...
...Ellis lie? For the most part, his stories weren't heroic but put him--and through him, his students--on the scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency...