Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tigerman's four-sided Roman arch is the most literally classical of the lot, although its instant statuary (stucco-sprayed mannequins) does madcap violence to any deeper notion of classicism. Graves' handsome copper-roofed arch is better behaved and more civic than the rest; it wants to be a real building. As for Pelli, the neomodernist turns out to be a cryptoprimitivist. His open-faced sandwich of long two-by-fours forms a kind of aboriginal latticework gate and seems Southwestern in the best sense: simple, staunch, serene...
...Then, almost the instant the game was over, real news began to break on all sides. The Patriots went public with a drug problem that the Boston Globe had been privy to for weeks but had withheld from its readers primarily in the interest of completeness and probably also to some extent Patriotism. Confronted with rumors before the Dolphin play-off game, Coach Raymond Berry agreed to cooperate if the Globe would sit on the story until the season's end. "There are at least five players we know who have a serious problem," Berry confirmed, "and five to seven...
...G.O.P. touted Kissinger, 62, as a formidable candidate, boasting instant name recognition and great potential fund-raising ability. But skeptics, mainly Democrats, doubted that the diplomat turned high-priced consultant is cut out for local politics or the rigors of the campaign trail. As Cuomo told the New York Times: "I know more about Buffalo than Beirut. Dr. Kissinger would be the other side of the coin." But could he beat the great global strategist? Yes, said the Governor, by "at least one vote...
...happened. In one fiery instant, the nation's complacent attitude toward manned space flight had evaporated at the incredible sight in the skies over Cape Canaveral...
...became an instant hero to both Hawaiians and Japanese Americans last January as the first member of either group to fly in space. Ellison Onizuka was a mission specialist on last year's classified military flight of Discovery, but he was perhaps most appreciated among colleagues for his gentle, unassuming manner. Describing one of the tasks he was to perform on Challenger, to film Halley's comet with a hand-held camera, he remarked with typical understatement, "I'll be looking at Halley's comet. They tell me I'll have one of the best views around...