Word: perched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting sets the mood. Richard Sylbert has devised a marvelous high-rise apartment in full view of-what else?-another highrise. The rent is just as steep, but the fixtures are gimcrack, the partitions are parchment, and the terrace looks like a handy suicide perch. The acoustics are superb. Says a sleepless Mel: "Two-thirty in the morning. I can hear the subway in here better than I can hear it in the subway...
...plant's critics, opposing Con Ed's request, charge that Indian Point No. 2 will wreak ecological havoc on the Hudson and decimate its fish population. They say that the company's first nuclear facility, Indian Point No. 1, has been killing striped bass, perch and other species since 1963. According to the Hudson River Fishermen's Association, the nuke was directly responsible for the death of between 310,000 and 475,000 fish in a six-week period last year alone...
...career with Time Inc. that started when she was hired as FORTUNE'S first photographer in 1929, Margaret Bourke-White pursued patterns everywhere, from sweat droplets on a South African miner's face more than a mile underground to the look of New York from a precarious perch atop a gargoyle on the Chrysler Building, 800 ft. above the street. By the time she died last week at 67, after an agonizing 19-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Bourke-White had long been recognized as one of the world's great photographers...
...west lies the splendor of 70 continuous miles of white sandy beaches. This coastline enhances transcendental (as opposed to commercial) values. Says Banham: "A man needs only what he stands up in-usually a pair of frayed shorts and sunglasses." In contrast are the foothills, where grand houses perch precariously on steep, lush gardens, the perfect incubators of the "fat life" of affluence and privacy...
...Pentagon he left behind. Adam Yarmolinsky has demonstrated the problems and agonies his former boss endured. Now come Alain Enthoven and Wayne Smith, far less ambitious and partisan, far more technically expert, too. How Much Is Enough? examines the Robert McNamara Pentagon from the authors' special perch in the Systems Analysis office-one of the former Defense Secretary's showpiece creations. With cool precision, Enthoven and Smith make a strong case for McNamara's approach to his job and present a convincing list of his considerable accomplishments. Perhaps without even intending to do so, they also show...