Word: grand
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...Grand Axis. "My life is architecture," says Owings. For him it means operating with a telephone grafted to his ear and a suitcase ever handy for a dash from California's Big Sur. Often he is on the road for weeks on end, racks up 20,000 air miles a month. He drops in on each S.O.M. office, tramps through national parks as a special consultant to the Department of the Interior, returns to California to help plan a Victorian-style convention center for Monterey, meets actual and potential clients everywhere. Such total absorption led to divorce from his first...
...member of Lady Bird Johnson's committee to beautify the capital, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's man on the spot to improve the Mall, Owings also rides herd on the committee to redesign Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol ? Washington's "grand axis" in Pierre L'Enfant's original scheme. Appointed to the committee by John F. Kennedy in 1962, the architect has moved his bulldozer capabilities into high gear, taking every available scrap of power "on the theory that if I was not supposed to have it, someone would tell me." President Johnson helped...
When a second building threatened to break ranks, Owings took a different tack. Developer Jerry Wolman planned to jut a commercial building onto the generous sidewalk area. Owings explained that this would ruin the grand effect, like a shoe protruding from under a curtain. Wolman finally agreed to change the building. Owings flew to Boston with Wolman to arrange the new financing, then back to the capital to get the developer a zoning variance to add an extra floor. A lot of effort, but the grand design for the avenue was kept intact...
...westerns go, this one doesn't. It saddles up a big-name cast, but the giddyap! gets mired in a lot of giddy yapping. The intent was to lighten carnage with comedy; the result is heavy-handed Grand Old Horse Opry...
Amidst the confusion of contradictory Gallup and Harris polls, and with a totally uncontroversial platform in the works, the Grand Old Party is preparing to open its 1968 convention in Miami Beach, Florida...