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Punctuation, then, is a civic prop, a pillar that holds society upright. (A run-on sentence, its phrases piling up without division, is as unsightly as a sink piled high with dirty dishes.) Small wonder, then, that punctuation was one of the first proprieties of the Victorian age, the age of the corset, that the modernists threw off: the sexual revolution might be said to have begun when Joyce's Molly Bloom spilled out all her private thoughts in 36 pages of unbridled, almost unperioded and officially censored prose; and another rebellion was surely marked when E.E. Cummings first felt...
...Center showcased seniors' works, some of which are still on view. The exhibition was notable for using the outside surfaces of the building as a display space, filling a courtyard with sculptured grass, setting a sequence of canvases along a sloping lawn and hanging synthetic tree branches from a pillar and the roof. The pieces engaged not only intentional viewers but also students on their way to class...
...American deficits, a huge campaign issue. Next morning he was at a Cabinet breakfast, collecting intelligence on the budget and trade. After that, he jetted to South Carolina to honor a speaking invitation from Republican Strom Thurmond, a locus of Senate power, even though Thurmond had been a pillar of support down there for Bob Dole...
...Kisho Kurokawa were Tange's students there in the '50s; Kurokawa and Isozaki worked in Tange's office in the late '50s and early '60s. In fact, Tange and Isozaki, 56, are a good point-counterpoint embodiment of the generational change in Japanese design. Tange is a reserved pillar of society. Isozaki, whose good friends (like Fashion Designer Issey Miyake) jokingly call him Iso-san, is an impish glamour...
Gerald Tsai, 59, is a legendary Wall Street figure who made millions as a mutual-fund manager during the go-go '60s. Now the Shanghai-born whiz is chief executive of Primerica, formerly American Can, once a pillar of Smokestack America and currently a $2.9 billion financial-services conglomerate. Last week Tsai burst back onto Wall Street when Primerica announced that it had agreed to buy Smith Barney, one of the country's best-known brokerage firms, for $750 million...