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...momentary fame was secure, his long-term reputation was unstable. To rigorous Modernists, there was something slack and accommodating about his work. The swelling lines of his TWA terminal at what is now JFK International Airport - weren't they a bit too delicious, too far from the square-shouldered Modernist grid? The bright blue exterior of his IBM facility in Rochester, Minn. - since when did austere Modernists do big color...
...symbolism and psychology, Saarinen brought to his TWA terminal. With the wide concrete wingspread of its flaring roof, it resembles a bird in flight. But more than that, it has an almost maternal quality, one that's re-emphasized by the Fallopian coils of the stairways inside. And the long enclosed tunnel that passengers had to walk from the main terminal to the gates - isn't that like a birth canal leading you to the moment you are launched into the sky? This is, after all, the man who invented the Womb chair...
...like French fries, and I probably shouldn't eat them very often. I actually came up with a rule: Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. One reason we struggle with obesity today is that special-occasion foods like French fries, cakes and cookies have become so easy to obtain...
...screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs and director Tim Vaughan take the elevator. They observe the story's complexities and keep the finger-pointing to a minimum. They pump up the tension by obliging John, like a thriller hero caught between the law and the bad guys, to battle both the long odds of finding a treatment and the fiery truculence of Ford's Dr. Stonehill. But while Ford growls and prowls like Darth Vader advancing on Han Solo, Fraser keeps the story anchored in reality. Meredith Droeger does too: as the Crowleys' afflicted daughter, she's a smart little bundle...
...financial crisis. Instead of attacking individuals, the Nobel Prize--winning economist faults the system that delivered us to the brink, citing the effects of everything from deregulation to the misaligned incentives of people selling financial products. But Stiglitz has his sights on a larger problem as well. For too long, he argues, economists and policymakers have relied on the erroneous assumptions that markets are fundamentally efficient and material wealth is the best measure of an economy's health. "The model of 19th century capitalism doesn't apply in the 21st," he writes. What we need now is "a new vision...