Word: looking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endorse the same slate of candidates as the staff. But we hope that they would, as council members, look for more efficacious means to achieve the noble ends of affordable housing and economic diversity...
...judgment of our Victorian forebears, who could not quite forgive Raphael's best pupil for his indelicacy. An air of brilliant second- rateness still clings to his name. Those who can thrust their way through the crowds in Palazzo Te in Mantua and manage a long look at the enormous Giulio Romano show that has been the city's main event this fall (it closes on Nov. 12) will have the best chance any public has had since the artist died in 1546 to judge him for themselves...
...table, where she likes to sketch and talk at the same time. "Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect, I'm an artist, I make things. I just love the fact that I can make a work and put it out there and walk away from it and then look at it like everyone else...
...concedes that her artistic vision is "distinctly Asian" in its stark simplicity and virtual requirement to "look inward." If it, and her almost single-minded devotion to work, can be traced to anything, it is to the close- knit, ascetic world of her family. Her parents fled China just before the Communist takeover in 1949 and eventually settled in Athens, Ohio, where her father, a ceramicist, taught for many years at Ohio University, and where her mother, a poet, still does. Her older brother, Tan, is also a poet. Lin's family in China, which included an architect...
...Americans, of whom 7,000 took the trouble to answer. The survey asked respondents about eating, sleeping, dressing and mating habits, as well as skills and eccentricities. Can they whistle by putting their fingers in their mouths? (Eighty-three percent cannot.) Do they like the way they look in the nude? (Fifty-nine percent do not.) Some responses stretch credibility (70% said they had no unmatched socks in their drawers). Others reaffirm intractable vices (72% squeeze the toothpaste tube from...