Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the fact that no two rooms have the same dimensions, the Sackler has a few other oddities. Some of its current novelties include the museum's innovative entrance. Breaking with traditional museum architecture, Stirling designed an entrance where visitors descend to glass doors rather than walk up a grand series of steps. This reversal enables the third gallery level of the Sackler to reach the same height as the Fogg's second floor level...
...Arthur M. Sackler Museum continues Harvard's grand tradition of finding grand architects to build notable buildings...
Think of the last time you saw a 20-year old drinking Old Grand-Dad from the bottle. Where was he? A party at Eliot house, or at the Pudding...
...oozed its way into the nation's consciousness, and its conscience, a little more than five years ago. "An environmental emergency," declared the Surgeon General in 1980. "A ticking time bomb primed to go off," warned the Environmental Protection Agency. The reaction was typically all-American: Congress created a grand-sounding "Superfund," a $1.6 billion, five-year crash program designed to clean up thousands of leaking dumps that were threatening to contaminate much of the nation's underground water supplies...
...long interview with three French questioners, which was broadcast in both the Soviet Union and France. The session revealed little that was new. In a 20- minute opening statement, Gorbachev, who cut a sober, dark-suited figure while seated behind an ornate Louis XV-style writing table in the Grand Kremlin Palace, struck the broad themes of his upcoming trip. He lauded recent Soviet arms-control initiatives and declared that "we are ready for other radical decisions." He even invoked De Gaulle as a source of inspiration. Said Gorbachev: "Ours is a Gaullist approach. We must live in the same...