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...site, he found a seven-foot-tall stone monument that had been built by Mayans over a thousand years ago. But the statue's elaborate pectoral ornament was missing...

Author: By Maria S. Shim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Archaeologist Graham Identifies Stolen Mayan Artifact | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

While some pieces of the monument were chipped away by natural causes, the ornament was smoothly sawed off, indicating that it had been stolen...

Author: By Maria S. Shim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Archaeologist Graham Identifies Stolen Mayan Artifact | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...folks at the Johnson Space Center in Houston have never much cared for their $225 million lawn ornament. Certainly, it's an impressive-looking thing; measuring nearly 400 ft. from its needly nose to its four stubby fins, it was designed on a scale more commonly associated with buildings than machines. The problem is, it's been decades since this particular machine actually stood to its full height. Instead, it has spent most of its life lying on its side in the withering Houston sun--beached, spent, a triumph less of engineering than of taxidermy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Asked For The Moon | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...million lawn ornament is--or was--a Saturn V rocket, one that was briefly known by the promising designation Apollo 18. Originally built to carry men to the surface of the moon, Apollo 18 was poised to go until the early 1970s, when the U.S. ran out of both the money and the will to make that kind of journey, and the giant missile was ordered to stand down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Asked For The Moon | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...City or Robert Stern's recyclings of the Shingle Style. It may be that PoMo quotation, of which a gutful has been served up over the past 25 years, served a useful purpose in reminding architecture's public that, yes, there was indeed a vast repertory of form and ornament on which early, messianic Modernism had turned its back. But it was mostly skin deep, and it kept turning into a kind of false nostalgia--a parallel to the rash of "heritage" fetishism in the 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Norman Foster: Lifting The Spirit | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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