Word: hiro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular, the Japanese are taking America's skylines by storm. They have invested an estimated $7 billion ($5.5 billion last year alone) in office towers and other buildings. Oil-company headquarters are a favorite: Hiro Real Estate last month paid $250 million for Mobil Oil's 42-story Manhattan headquarters tower. An older landmark, Fifth Avenue's Tiffany building, was sold last November to Dai-ichi America Real Estate for $94 million. Where landmarks are not available, seascapes will do: in Hawaii, Japanese investors own more than half of the twelve major hotels along Waikiki Beach...
...might be the next best catch to British royalty. And with Mark's proclivity for controversial business deals and driving fast sports cars, a Fortson heiress should be a stabilizing, not to say supportive, influence. After church, at a gala lunch, with guests including Japan's Prince Hiro (now at Oxford) and Britain's Princess Alexandra, one can imagine that there was more than a single set of crossed fingers under the table...
...contrast between the blundering ways of man and the sometimes harsh, sometimes subtle efficiency with which a natural environment functions when left to its own devices. As the Mowat character, Charles Martin Smith plays with ingratiating innocence, stubborn and plucky. His art, like that of Ballard's cameraman, Hiro Narita, lies in understatement that does not imply dispassion. Ballard and his masterly crew of film makers have reimagined a corner of the natural world, metaphorically connecting the cold spaces and indifferent silences of a vast land with the heated struggle for existence taking place closer to the ground, nearer...
...seven children, both Crown Prince Akihito, 49, and his brother Hitachi, 47, have inherited their father's hobby.* The handsome, retiring elder son has published 23 monographs on ichthyology; Hitachi specializes in fish tumors. Second in line to the throne is Akihito's eldest son Hiro, 23, who recently left Tokyo to study medieval European history at Oxford...
...think she has definitely found a niche in the market", said an admiring Hiro Takeuchi, assistant professor of Retailing, after viewing Feidorek's fashions...