Word: functions
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Strasser now dabbles in industrial design and ultimately, he says, he "will ! probably turn into an architect." His extraordinary aesthetic and worldly success is, of course, a function of his talent and intelligence. But it is also, he believes, a product of Texas laissez-faire can-doism. "I'm clearly a Texan," he says. "I hate committees, I love the Texas freedom of spirit -- the renegade, what-the-hell, we're-gonna-do-it-our-way attitude." Strasser admits, however, that it was only in the past year, when a wider world recognized his elegant embodiment of that spirit, that...
...anthems for Poland and Rumania, but they have some polishing to do on Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and, who knows, maybe Albania. The way things are going, figures director Bourgeois, the leaders of those nations will sooner or later show up at the White House for a state function, and the President's own band will have to tootle them down the red carpet...