Word: ironization
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Most of those who know Aquino well are even more confident that her iron will and her driving sense of duty will not allow her to give up. In a poem he gave her for her 41st birthday, Ninoy described his wife as "unruffled by trouble, undeterred by the burden, though heavy the load. Nothing is impossible . . ." His sister Lupita, whose relations with the President have sometimes been frosty, now speaks with the fervor of the converted. "I believe that she was born and raised for this role," she says. "After she spoke before the U.S. Congress, I said...
Inside, the elephant seemed perfect, down to the last coat of beige paint on the last iron rosette in its immense barrel vault, arching a hundred feet above the floor. The minute hand of its floriated and gilded clock, one of the largest in France, which since 1900 had declared the time to generations of anxious travelers, now moved in sedate jerks toward apotheosis. The Manets were in place. From the bay of Courbets, dense and dark, impacted with reality, one could look across the nave to their diametric opposite, Thomas Couture's pedantic warning to the Third Empire...
...Charles Garnier, who created the Paris Opera, and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, France's supreme engineer. But he gave the Gare d'Orsay all he had, and that, backed by the decorative and engineering resources of fin de siecle Paris, was quite a lot: a vast semicircular barrel vault of iron and glass, stretching 150 yards from end to end, with elliptical-domed side vaults along the Quai Anatole France facing the Seine, all encased in a wrapping of richly carved limestone facades whose swags, cartouches, urns, allegorical figures and pediments bring to mind the words of Antoinin Careme, Talleyrand...
...paintings. This meant putting a new building inside the old, and there was no question of designing it in the manner of Laloux. "It could not be a pastiche," says Lachenaud. "The station itself was pastiche, a 19th century parody of what the 18th century was thought to be -- iron and glass technology layered over with archaic decor. So we knew we could make no compromise with the original design...
...fact, Aulenti has done more than collaborate. Both on the ground floor and in the upper galleries, she has set up a constant dialogue of detail between her building and Laloux's. The limestone screens on which major paintings hang, inserted into Laloux's iron arches, have segments cut out of them through which one glimpses vistas of the original building. Laloux's space is "quoted" by breaches, angles, slippages, unexpected openings; no room is wholly enclosed, yet the effect is never choppy or distracting. Its essential medium always is light. Orsay is theatrical only at one point, where...