Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undertaken: Liberty's torch is entirely new. The old handle had corroded badly, and the flame had been replaced in 1916 by a leaky, kitschy amber-glass contraption. (It is now on display in the new granite entrance lobby, designed by the firm of Swanke Hayden Connell.) Appropriately, twelve French artisans were imported to fashion a new torch. They needed a year to make a plywood mold, take a plaster cast of the wooden form, make a metal mold over which reinforcing concrete was poured, and finally fashion the repousse copper flame itself--then cover it in nearly a pound...
...campus packed onto 27 acres, is almost as complex architecturally as it is emotionally. For a place not really so old (construction lasted from 1890 to 1935 off and on) and built for quick-and- dirty bureaucratic use, much of the compound is astonishingly lovely. The basic style is French Renaissance revival; the materials are brick, limestone and copper. The hospital, on the south side of the ferry slip, is a particularly pretty beaux-arts jewel...
...gives us great pride to see Ukrainian studies taught on the highest level at Harvard University," Baziuk says. "It's very exciting to have your culture taught legitimately at Harvard like French or Italian...
...plot of this Beverly Hills Cop meets The French Connection flick is basically pretty straight forward. Gregory Hines, last seen dancing his tootsies off in the utterly offensive White Knights, and Billy "Mahvelous" Crystal play two yukster detectives from inner city Chicago who spend their spare moments between making drug busts and nailing crime rings by delivering Lettermanesque monologues to each other, presumably to pass the time. Utterly realistic cops these guys aren't, but remember, this isn't Hill Street Blues, and going to the movies means suspending one's disbelief. If you keep that caveat in mind...
...courses that were cancelled, Pihl said, included Comp Lit 170, "Gertrude Stein;" Drama S-70, "Theater of the Avant Garde;" Government 1340, "Constitutional Interpretation;" Government 1595, "American Political Theory;" Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations S-199, "History of the Jews in Europe to the End of the 18th Century;" French S-P; and German S-170, "Golden Age of the German Film...