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...third run-in with the triads, were probably a response to a hard-hitting expos? of the Heavenly Way gang that ran in August; the magazine is still dodging official flak from a story it broke last spring about an illegal government slush fund. Complains chief editor Pei Wei: "The police and prosecutors have worked as the authorities' hitmen, trying to keep the media from reporting government corruption." Lai, who got his start in Hong Kong, remains optimistic about his Taiwan ventures. "Press freedom is there," he says, "but don't expect everything to go smoothly, because old habits...
...Pastor, 42, figures that it takes about four years to learn how to make a forcola, and about 25 to learn it well. In addition to their very practical use on boats, the elbow-shaped forcole are classy wooden sculptures and Pastor has both Mick Jagger and architect I.M. Pei among his clients. He says the crisis in gondola making is only part of a larger problem. "There are other kinds of boats that people don't even know how to make anymore," he says, referring to craft like the peata and the batea con la coda di gambero (boat...
June 7, 1974: Architect I. M. Pei promises to scale down plans for the JFK library, eliminating the 85-foot glass pyramid and the two 350-seat theaters. The changes were made in response to the outrage by community members against the large size of the library...
...nation's energy capital and home to the oil-baron excesses of the 1980s, is back in "bidness." The energy giants in Texas have big fat wallets these days--and even bigger construction plans. Not since the boom days of 1982, when trophy architects like Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei reconfigured the skyline, has Houston seen so much construction activity by the energy sector...
...nation's energy capital and home to the oil-baron excesses of the 1980s, is back in "bidness." The energy giants in Texas have big fat wallets these days--and even bigger construction plans. Not since the boom days of 1982, when trophy architects like Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei reconfigured the skyline, has Houston seen so much construction activity by the energy sector...