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...factor affecting contemporary architecture is globalization. "For the first time," he says, "an architect can build all over the world." He lives in London (though he spends much of the year in hotels), has an office in Rotterdam and runs an ongoing research project at Harvard that studies the Pearl River Delta, a rapidly emerging urban area in China. "It's clear," he maintains, "that you shouldn't just import; you should use the cultural potential of each country in such a way that it synthesizes with your interests. The MCA project is a beautiful project in that sense, because...
DIED. MINNIE PEARL, 83, comedian; in Nashville, Tennessee. Offstage she was Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, the elegant, sophisticated neighbor of Governors. But onstage she was the country cutup whose raucous "Howww-dee!," price-tag-bedecked hat ($1.98) and 50-year search for a "feller" made her an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, where she debuted in 1940. For 20 years, she displayed her fearlessly corny humor...
EDDIE VEDDER "I don't think it means anything," Pearl Jammer said of his award. But he took it anyway...
HOSPITALIZED. MINNIE PEARL, 83, country-comedy fixture for 20 years on TV's Hee Haw and 50 on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry; for complications of a stroke; in Nashville, Tennessee...
...singer of qawwali--Sufi Muslim religious music, which, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Some American rock stars, perhaps seeking to fill a spiritual void in their own music, have gravitated to Khan. Eddie Vedder, leader of the prickly rock band Pearl Jam, sings two elegiac duets with him on the sound track of the film Dead Man Walking...