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...couple hand of after the design was approved in November 1980. Instead of after the design was approved in November 1980. Instead of a simple concrete floor, for example, the architect, London's Foster Associates, suggested an opaque glass central plaza under the building that would glow, as Munden puts it, "like a carpet of light." The bank's directors also showed interest in a giant, mirrored sun scoop to funnel sunshine into the building's interior (cost: $20 million...
...legend of the man is safely sheltered these days behind high fences of respect. Were the real Washington on hand today, that might not be the case, and therein may lie a lesson. We have in this nation erected standards for our public people that dim anyone's glow if he or she falls short of perfection. It is reasonable, then, to wonder if people can enter public life and make a difference as they did in the first years of the Republic. Even as our expectations have grown, our respect for and sympathy with Presidents have diminished...
Though nobody is willing to pronounce the experiment a runaway success, the initial returns have been so bullish that Sears will open seven more financial branches this week in cities from Tacoma, Wash., to Tallahassee, Fla., and 18 more in May. The encouraging results added a glow to Sears' announcement last week that its overall profits rose 33% in 1982, to $861.2 million, on revenues of $30 billion...
...estimated $750,000 base salary is guaranteed. Though there are other financial benefits involved in his comeback, and probably legal ones too, they are not what Walton talks about. "Movement is freedom," he says. "I love motion and speed, the glow around you and your teammates when you're going down the court, feeling good, communicating without words or even signals, just looking at each other. It's fun. You fit." No one should ever have to ask how the weather is up there...
...cultured convict, and they work as partners in some great car and subway chases through the streets of San Francisco. The photography, music, plot, characters all come together in Chinatown for the incredibly thrilling end. The Indian, the psychopath, Murphy and Nolte stalk each other by the eerie glow of the neon lights through the fog. The final explosive shots are in slow motion, and put 48 Hours on a par with Dirty Harry, White Lightning and The French Connection. With fast action, violence, urban realism, 48 Hours unites the best elements of escapism...