Word: mastering
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...interest around the world, it is fitting that the elder statesman of Japanese design, Kenzo Tange, 73, should become the first of his countrymen to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The $100,000 award, announced last week, went to one of the most important modernists of his generation, a master builder who can point to a body of work that is large, far-flung and confident. Tange was a committed and conscientious designer in the International Style during its heyday, a modernist who resisted the easiest answers of modernism during his prime...
...years before he built his first building, but he remained in thrall to Corbusier and concrete and public architecture. Tange was well- suited by temperament and history to be a Corbusian. The French master's stark, sweeping forms have the purity of Zen monoliths, and concrete was a practical material for rebuilding bombed-out, impoverished Japan. Tange's first realized design was archetypally postwar: the Hiroshima Peace Center. * Finished in stages during the early 1950s, the complex is a complete preview, in miniature,of Tange's architectural career. Nearly all of his low-rise, high-modern ideas are on display...
Reagan has been a master of public symbols. He worked an alchemy of nostalgia and hope, visions of the past and the future collaborating. He gave the people reassuring images of a mythic American past -- the Olympic torch, the tall ships, the Statue of Liberty, the heroes in the visitors' gallery on State of the Union nights, Tom Sawyer come back to life as a yuppie -- a sweet, virtuous America recrystallized by Reagan after the traumatic changes of the '60s and '70s. Reagan gave Americans the idea of a future as spacious as their past...
...users master the new complexities of phones, they find that the gadgets save them time and energy. Businesses, in particular, report that high-tech phones increase productivity and cut travel costs by making it possible to meet and swap information by phone line instead of by airline. Says Gary Handler, vice president of network planning for Bell Communications Research, the engineering arm for the local telephone companies: "The telephone network of the next generation will be capable of doing almost anything the public wants. The only question: Is the public ready?" If the speed with which smart telephones are appearing...
None of these forgetable films, though, are quite as bad as Heat, an impossibly dull plod through the Vegas underworld. Reynolds--transformed into a Mexican by the careful application of some Ultra-Tan Lotion--stars as Nick Escalante, professional chaperone and "master of edged weapons." Even after chewing on it for three days, I cannot think of word scathing enough to describe Reynolds' somnabulatory performance. He's so wooden that you want to build an addition out of him. He stumbles through the moronic plot like the newly-resurrected, his face frozen into a tanned grimace, with not a single...