Word: monolithism
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...Horseshoe: May 12, 1985. Representatives from the NBA's seven worst teams pile into Madison Square Garden for the league's first lottery. Knick general manager Dave DeBusschere, desperate for the Knicks to acquire the rights to Georgetown monolith Pat Ewing, brings a lucky horseshoe to supplement his home-court advantage. It works. The Knicks get Ewing, quickly tagged "The Franchise" by New York reporters. Led by The Franchise, the Knicks come in last again...
They underestimate the voter who also happens to be Black. And its also looping them into one corner, as if they are a monolith, with all of the same interests at stake...
...went down to the Soldiers' Field tennis courts the other day to play street hockey for dear old Adams House against the concrete monolith of Mather...
Among the best of Predock's work is the 1985 Tesuque House, built on a desert ridge overlooking the gorgeous desolation north of Santa Fe. The house, like all his finest designs, is not a monolith but a suggestive collection of smaller pieces, here a kind of lyrical single-family mountain village consisting of separate stucco boxes for living room, guest room, master bedroom and kitchen. The forms are stark, but Predock's scheme -- a casual zigzag arrangement that follows the terrain, roof lines that vary from flat to peaked to pyramidal, a restrained polychrome palette -- mitigates austerity. Gravitas without...
...decade ago, China appeared to be a monolith, but times have changed. After nine years of Deng Xiaoping's "Second Revolution" -- economic reform -- two Chinas have emerged. In the relatively prosperous coastal regions, millions of successful entrepreneurs are building a future in exports to the outside world. Meanwhile, most of the interior provinces lag well behind, thanks to stagnant state planning, price-controlled agriculture and millions of cadres clinging to Mao's rusty concept of the "iron rice bowl," lifelong employment guaranteed by the state. In parts of the interior, especially the large cities and Sichuan, Deng's home province...