Word: mold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past 30 years, Harvard seems to have fallen into the habit of constructing positively hideous modern buildings. But students and architecture critics alike are looking to this year's construction of the DeWolfe Street dormitory to break Harvard's masochistic mold of modernism...
...Administration's point man on a handful of issues. He has become a vigorous White House envoy to constituencies the President ignores. He has shrewdly begun to lay the groundwork for his own 1996 run for the White House. Quayle has become a Vice President in the Bush mold: a self-effacing, dutiful sidekick who will stand where the President points, as Bush sometimes does to Quayle in Rose Garden ceremonies, and will perform secret missions as needed. In other words, he has become the kind of Vice President Bush himself...
...reinvent the American school." Federal grants of $1 million each would go to start 535 brand-new experimental schools by 1996, with at least one in each congressional district. Meanwhile, businesses would contribute $150 million or more to a research-and-development fund. The schools would "break the mold," says Bush. Sponsors could be public or private. Once reforms are working, he hopes, a populist ground swell will demand that they be imitated...
...upon closer inspection, it's obvious that they don't quite fit the mold. On the front, in between the "D" for "Department" and "A" for "Athletics," there is a large "K" where an "H" would normally appear. And on the back, "Let's Just Stop Pretending...
...example, Kelley quotes at length Shirley Watkins -- identified as "one of Mrs. Reagan's secretaries" -- describing the cynical way in which Nancy Reagan and her advisers tried to mold her public image. When it was suggested that Mrs. Reagan meet with a little boy dying of muscular dystrophy, Watkins recalls that a top aide replied, "Absolutely not. The First Lady doesn't want her picture taken with some drooly kid on a respirator. It's too disgusting...