Word: glassing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...walk from Reeves’ storefront campaign headquarters at 555 Mass. Ave. to the CCTV offices at 675 Mass. Ave., the councillor exchanges greetings with at least five passers-by.At the CCTV offices, a man raps the window to get Reeves’ attention. Rapping his own fist against the glass in response, Reeves explains that the man’s former landlord had sold his house, leaving the man in the hands of a new landlord who wanted him to leave. Reeves had helped the man find a new home.On the way back, Reeves chats briefly with others he encounters...
...example, they imprinted images by German photographer Thomas Ruff. But what really interests them is not applied decoration but the challenge of finding ways to make the structure and the surface design one. That was the old dream of architectural Modernism, which settled for lines of steel and glass up and down the front of a building. Herzog and de Meuron are always looking for something more complicated. For their first U.S. commission, a winery in Yountville, Calif., they constructed walls from chunks of basalt ranging in size from baseballs to boulders. But instead of being mortared together, the rocks...
...turbine hall preserved as a massive art-display space. By that time, from their home base in Basel, they were conquering the world. The past few years have seen the completion in Tokyo of a much discussed Prada store, with its honeycomb steel surfaces set with bulging lenses of glass; a major addition to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn.; and a soccer stadium in Munich. Their relatively small firm has also snagged one of the biggest architectural commissions of the decade, the 2008 Olympic Stadium in Beijing, which will be an undulating nest wrapped in an irregular ribbonwork...
...line employers of the old-boy school, this sounds like just one more reason to keep the glass ceiling polished. But other behavioral experts think Vesterlund's conclusions go too far. They say it's not that women aren't ambitious enough to compete for what they want; it's that they're more selective about when they engage in competition; they're willing to get ahead at high cost but not at any cost. "Primate-wide, males are more directly competitive than females, and that makes sense," says Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University...
...game was won on special teams—we lost the game on special teams. No other excuse to lose that game.” Michael Bordieri’s empty-netter with 19 seconds left iced the 5-2 victory, and he immediately jumped toward the glass, where the student section roared. A Division II squad until 1998, the Bobcats were 1-0 in the ECAC. The next night, they beat Dartmouth 7-5, sweeping two of the conference’s toughest teams in one fell swoop. But after the game, as Quinnipac players and coaches mingled amidst...