Word: ops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hughes vividly remembers the shock of seeing his first great building. Says he: "I had been taught to respect only the austere International Style of architects like Le Corbusier, and I should have considered the Paris Opéra to be inflated and vulgar. Instead, as I walked into that gilded whale, I felt like Jonah being swallowed by the great fish. The Opéra is a stately, generous building that makes you feel that you are the one to whom the structure is directed...
...hardly be considered free in a political sense. Advertising is only "free" to those who can pay for it. Therefore it is inherently biased towards the interests of the wealthy. Political advertisements--those that make an overtly political argument (such as Mobil's weekly pro-business columns on the op-ed page of the New York Times)--promote the self-interested views of the advertisers. Promotional advertisements--those that attempt to sell a product or solicit a service (such as Mr. Chan's ad)--promote the material interests and values of the advertisers...
...Right now, it's 50-50 whether we go with Harvard or fight them," Gail T. Wooten, administrator of the co-op, said yesterday...
...University and co-op members agree the day care center must move because it currently receives small amounts of radiation from a medical device used for treatment in conjunction with the Harvard School of Medicine...
Tests show that the radiation level in the old building is harmless, but co-op members and University officials said they do not want to take chances with small children...