Word: kevin
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What gives? Obviously, racism is not something one approaches like unemployment or inflation. You can't throw money at racism. You can't solve the problem through tax cuts, defense hikes, or constructing more shelters for the homeless. But Boston is a city on the move, as Kevin White always said with a quivering voice, a city about to become an international center for culture and commerce. Such a city cannot afford the stigma of racism that Boston earned during the mid-seventies' forced busing fracas...
...nicer to the girls," teases Kevin Cooper after Ratliff has left Yasenak's office. Cooper, 18, enlisted in mid-March...
...DIED. Kevin Lynch, 66, pioneering urban theorist who, in such books as The Image of the City (1960) and Site Planning (1962), studied the structure and diversity of cities, analyzed how residents perceived and organized that diversity, and suggested ways to improve the coherence and vividness of landmarks and open spaces to give city dwellers a sense of place and direction; of a heart attack; in Gay Head, Mass...
...death in 1950 at the age of 76, the academy's influence spread through the work of Eero and a number of students and associates who became some of the country's leading planners and architects, among them Edmund Bacon, Carl Feiss, Harry Weese, Cesar Pelli, Kevin Roche, Ralph Rapson, Gunnar Birkerts and E. Charles Bassett...
...overall production suffers from a languor that is too palpable to capture effectively even the extreme decadence of Hitler-ascendant Berlin. The band makes more bearable the probably unavoidable but still awkward pauses between scenes with quite rousing renditions of music hall and dixieland-flavored tunes. And while Kevin Jennings' direction is clearly competant and clear, a freshness and originality is missing. The direction is not highly memorable, visually striking or evocative because, for one thing, Jennings relies too heavily on the stark symbol of the swastika to shock and draw forth all of our powerful emotions and connections...