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...Frank Lloyd Wright builds Taliesin, his Wisconsin home and workshop...
...Corbusier was the most important architect of the 20th century. Frank Lloyd Wright was more prolific--Le Corbusier's built oeuvre comprises about 60 buildings--and many would argue he was more gifted. But Wright was a maverick; Le Corbusier dominated the architectural world, from that halcyon year of 1920, when he started publishing his magazine L'Esprit Nouveau, until his death in 1965. He inspired several generations of architects--including this author--not only in Europe but around the world. He was more than a mercurial innovator. Irascible, caustic, Calvinistic, Corbu was modern architecture's conscience...
First, along with then-Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen, he proposed a deficit reduction package early in the first term of the Clinton Administration which Levy says contributed significantly to the latest period of gradual, low-inflation growth...
...joined the Caspian rush early, the U.S. government was slow to get organized. Some of Washington's top power brokers and law firms went to work for Caspian governments or U.S. companies, selling, consulting, lobbying or opening doors. Among them were former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, and John Sununu, who was George Bush's chief of staff. Perhaps the most active Washington name is former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, now a consultant for Amoco. He has long been a mentor to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and he has warned the White House...
...Although Lloyd's quest can be fun reading, once again, reality has proved the master of fiction. Last week's humongous real-life deals might raise the unemployment rate in three or four cities while making the honchos filthy rich. That makes even Lloyd seem just a little too tame...