Word: hancock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James P. Hancock Ottawa Hills, Ohio
...songs, like those of his crony and frequent collaborator Butch Hancock, are bleak and wistful and angry, awash in the colors that Joe picked up on all of his magical misery tours. Ely's band, along with the traditional complement of bass, rhythm guitar and drums, also includes a sax and an accordion, so its sound sometimes takes on Tex-Mex overtones, or even a certain savor from Cajun territory. Ely's sources are scrupulously eclectic. Perhaps his nearest spiritual peer is that old renegade Jerry Lee Lewis. Live Shots contains one old tune, Fingernails, that may once...
...aspect of modern corporate life is immune to the onrush of computer technology's latest tools. In Boston, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. has provided word-processing terminals for more than 100 secretaries and other clerical workers. Since January productivity for the employees has jumped by an astonishing...
...citing examples of his own work, Cobb emphasizes his desire to make designs fit existing structural and social contexts. One of his designs, the John Hancock Insurance Company building, has been one of Boston's most controversial structures. Located in Copley Square, the Hancock tower in famous for the structural defect which resulted in huge planes of glass exploding off its facade exterior. Even before that catastrophe, citizens were outraged by the arrogance of a private corporation erecting a 60-story office building adjacent to the city's historic heart; the tower stands next to H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church...
Cobb makes no apologies for the Hancock tower. He admits that it was finally approved for economic and not aesthetic reasons. "It served the vital economic interests of the community that this company should stay in Boston," he states, adding that he "adopted a strategy of minimalism because the situation demanded it. We excluded everything that didn't contribute, in an effort to temper the inherent arrogance of such a building...