Word: foyer
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What does the new American home look like? The shift is obvious as soon as you step through the front door. The grand entryway - the two-story foyer with a sweeping, often multipronged staircase - is quickly giving way to a more modest entrance. Stairs are less about architectural flourish and more about getting upstairs (if you can imagine). That means they're either moving back up against the wall or turning into more-compact switchbacks. The two-story foyer is becoming less and less popular too - in an era of tighter purse strings, who wants to heat and cool...
...remarkable ability to beautify even the bleakest of urban and professional settings. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Holyoke Center, where a series of prints redefines the otherwise drab space occupied by the southern elevator foyer. The university has filled the alcove with an exhibition of photographs by Harvard Law School Professor emeritus Henry Steiner, on display until September 23. While the title “From Film to Digital: Fresh Images Over Decades” may give false promise of an innovative look at the new age of digital photography, it still proves to be a thought...
...motivated not by profits but by a sense of patriotism. "I've put stars on the Wall [of Honor] for contractors," he said, referring to the CIA tradition of honoring those who were killed in the line of duty by placing a star on a wall in the main foyer of the Agency's headquarters in Langley. There have been 13 new stars since 9/11, but it's not clear how many of those honor contractors. The CIA doesn't always release the names and other details about honorees...
Next up for Ingalls' house in upstate New York: more floor work in the foyer, as well as granite-topped counters in the kitchen. That means another trip back to Craigslist. "There's no reason to think that I won't get the same results I did the first time," he says. "Approaching a project in this way and in this economy definitely tips the scales in a consumer's favor. And I'm more than happy to take advantage...
...managing the stimulus story has become a full-time White House preoccupation. On a typical day recently, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appeared in the Bronx to announce $90 million in inner-city financing; Michelle Obama revealed $851 million in new health-center grants; and the President, in the Grand Foyer, hailed stimulus jobs "building wind turbines and solar panels." Biden announced plans to fly to Pennsylvania, where he will "highlight Recovery Act broadband investments," while other agencies rolled out press releases regarding new dump-truck engines in Montana, North Dakota school grants and diesel tractors in Utah. (See pictures...