Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example. When the GSD was founded, American buildings were primarily done in the Beaux Arts style, a mish-mash of the architectural conventions of the past. Working architects were well aware of the International Style, thanks largely to the efforts of the Museum of Modern Art. Nevertheless, there was considerable resistance to it, both by clients and architects unfamiliar with the style, and unimpressed by what they had seen...
...years I.P.S. has done studies that criticize U.S. policies on human rights, disarmament and the military-industrial complex. "We would never do five-page reports like Heritage because the problems the country faces are too serious, and we have too much respect for the legislators," says Director Robert Borosage. Nevertheless, when I.P.S. completes a planned three-year, multimillion-dollar expansion, it intends to hold more congressional briefings and press briefings. "We want to take a much more visible role," says Borosage...
...believe that really happened, you, like thousands of other gullible Americans, have been taken in by one more of the hundreds of urban legends that regularly make their spoken way across the country. "The Mexican Pet" is nevertheless, the authentic title story of Jan Harold Brunvand's third collection of whoppers. Together, these new wives' tales merge as an American picaresque, a compilation of myths that keep the telephone wires humming and cocktail parties doubly fueled...
...stale-tasting duck pate and the overly complicated, overcooked saddle of lamb with basil cream could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris setting, includes such embarrassingly corny touches as violinists serenading customers as they climb stairs to the dining room. Nevertheless, Manhattan's Maxim's is merely a model; Cardin is planning a series of casual eateries called L'Omnibus de Maxim's, after the cafe L'Omnibus already operating in New York, and a chain of Maxim's Suite Hotels. The first is soon to open in Palm Springs. Says...
...Nevertheless, Dale receives a modest stipend to begin his research; he also gets the enthusiastic sexual attention of Roger's wife. The cuckolded professor, who possesses an odd, out-of-body ability to witness and describe the trysts between Esther and Dale, takes this infidelity and betrayal calmly. For Roger's interest has been captured by his niece Verna, a friend of Dale's, who is the abandoned and unwed mother of a half-black infant and who lives in a housing project not far from Roger's home. Although he does not want to claim responsibility for this distant...