Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest headache in Boston is undoubtedly the John Hancock Tower, however. It seems that everybody has their own favorite anecdote about this 60-story building with its cascading windows. Yet the matter of the falling glass has tended to obscure the initial argument which Pei encountered when he was commissioned to design a home office headquarters for the New England life insurance firm...
...original dispute concerning the Hancock Tower was the size of the building itself. As soon as Pei announced the project in 1967, community and architectural leaders swooped down upon the plan and condemned it as 1.6 million square feet of blight on the serene and intimate Copley Square...
...opposing architects, led by the Boston Society of Architects (BSA), a chapter of the American Institute of Architects, claimed that Hancock's request "to increase the floor-area ratio by nearly three times that provided in the zoning ordinance, is such a flagrant breach of the existing regulations that it would make zoning meaningless as a way of regulating land use in the public interest." The architects, in a somewhat foreboding note, also criticized the Pei designers for attempting "to reduce the apparent bulk of their proposal by cladding it in mirrors. This is a device untried on any scale...
...winner-a blond-and-blue-eyed All-America baseball hero, golden, graceful and uncomplicated. Julian Weston is a maggot-pale homosexual prostitute, strung out like a taut wire between self-inflicted denigration and a yearning for clean, well-lighted love. What these totally disparate characters-the one in John Hancock's film Bang the Drum Slowly, the other in English Playwright John Hopkins' Broadway drama Find Your Way Home -have in common is the very uncommon talent of Actor Michael Moriarty, who plays them both. With the release of the film in August and the opening...
Twelve teams competed in the two days of events held in Hancock, Vt., and Dartmouth came away with top honors, scoring 175 points. Middlebury finished second by just 7 points, while defending champion Vermont came in third with 122 points...