Word: paule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Owner Paul R. Corcoran '54, whose grandfather opened the original store in Central Square and relocated it to 14 Brattle Street in 1949, said Corcoran's is closing for "purely economic reasons." He said the lease expired and that the landlord wanted more rent than the store could afford...
...neither aesthetics nor safety caused grave problems. The library persuaded Paul Dietrich, the architect who designed the station itself, to design the bookcase at no cost. The library then paid for the materials and labor needed to build the shelves. "The designer knew what he was doing," said Carbona. "He put the shelf in the right location, and it looks beautiful...
...Paul Simon's earlobes are too big, and his droning voice doesn't match the sprightly bow tie. Bruce Babbitt has trouble working up a convincing smile. Pete du Pont comes across as an eager accountant, and Al Gore could fit comfortably into the cast of Dynasty. All of them, however, could take a few lessons in TV communication skills from the Soviet Union's new media star, Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Luftwaffe," the Prince said at the annual dinner of the Corporation of London Planning and Communications Committee. "When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that." Worst of all, he complained, Sir Christopher Wren's majestic St. Paul's Cathedral has been overshadowed by a jumble of ugly office buildings. "In the space of a mere 15 years, in the '60s and '70s, your predecessors as the planners, architects and developers wrecked the London skyline and desecrated the dome of St. Paul's," the Prince lectured the stunned black...
...Squares and courtyards were bulldozed flat. Planners who felt that London was too dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach up high in search of light. They rose, in fact, to the 52-story, 600-ft. level of the NatWest Tower, dwarfing the 365-ft.-high St. Paul's dome. According to Gavin Stamp, architecture critic of the London Daily Telegraph, "Wren's skyline was lost, not owing to any conscious decision, but to a sort of collective fit of absence of mind...