Word: interior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Personalities always cause debate, and in 1983 former Secretary of the Interior James Watt, ex-National Security Adviser (and Watt's replacement at the Department of Interior) William Clark and Comedian Joan Rivers ("tasteless and cruel") drew the public's ire. Yet readers rose to defend celebrities they deemed badly treated-such as the late anchorwoman Jessica Savitch and Elizabeth Taylor ("Why do journalists feel compelled to constantly snipe at Elizabeth Taylor's weight?" chided...
...internationally known Moshe Safdie, who teaches at Harvard and has done some of his best work in Jerusalem. It is as "modern" as anything touted in the architectural magazines, yet disciplined by the unique constraints of traditional stone, traditional arches and domes, and tight, medieval alleys, stairways and interior courts. Constraints, it seems, free true creativity, in sharp contrast to originality for its own sake. But only 5½% of the total population live in the Old City. The rest live in old residential districts or new communities built on the nearby hills...
...bona fide challenge. On the other hand, the only formidable opponent to the regime may provide more of a challenge than the government cares to see. Arturo Cruz, 54, a former Sandinistation parties. The government leadership has tried to discredit Cruz in the past. Nonetheless, after considerable debate, Interior Minister Tomas Borge grudgingly announced last week that Cruz would be allowed to return to Nicaragua from self-imposed exile in Washington, D.C., and could present himself as a presidential candidate. But, Borge admitted, "I'm personally not going to send out a welcoming committee...
...after Reagan, probably by emphasizing the nuclear issues championed by Cranston. Reagan could also be vulnerable on environmental issues there--as well as in some of the northwestern states whose populations have been rubbed the 3 wrong way by the policies of Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior, James B. Watt. Still, given the area's basic conservatism, the West is Reagan's to lose...
...asked in return: "Don't you agree that a touch of red is needed just there, a complementary color to focus the green composition, as in a Corot landscape?" The woman who makes this reply is Celeste, the family's ultimate arbiter in matters of aesthetics, interior decoration and fashion. She is blind. Similarly, the renowned four-story library at Marulanda is all veneer, a mass assembly of false fronts: "Behind those thousands of proudly bound spines there existed not a single printed letter...