Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...site reverted to the Commonwealth and the state donated 12 acres on Columbia Point for the library, despite some feeling that, in terms of economic development, a better site could have been found. Pei returned to his New York studio and drew up a fifth set of plans--the glass and pre-formed concrete structure which officials will dedicate on October...
Carter alluded to that embarrassing moment during a black-tie dinner for López Portillo Friday night. Lifting a glass of water?White House servants had not yet filled the wine glasses?Carter promised: "I am determined to make the result of our toast better than in Mexico." He conceded that the U.S. and Mexico "have not always had happy and peaceful relations," but claimed that "the troubled and uncertain times between our two countries are gone forever." López Portillo was slightly less euphoric in his response. He noted that "frank and open communication" was necessary to enhance...
...scenes that evoke images from Dante's Inferno. Beneath a perpetual mushroom cloud of pollution rising from a huge garbage dump called Santa Fe, 1,000 pepenadores (those who pick things up) sift through a pile of rubble 1.6 miles long and hundreds of feet high for bones, paper, glass and other recyclable items. By selling this refuse to a trash king, the pepenadores can earn more than the daily minimum wage of $6.25. As a consequence, this wretched work has become a hereditary plum; generations of pepenadores have been born and will die in the squalid settlements built...
While an audience of 20 watched through the cafeteria's glass wall, the man billed as a master stepped silently from one chess board to the next, giving each move no more than ten seconds of attention. His score was seven won, four lost, four drawn...
...auditorium of the Time-Life Building in Manhattan. But his best-known structure is Milan's 420-ft. wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes seem to float, and an austere double bed. A bed, he said, "isn't only a place for voluptuousness," but a place for comfort and majesty...