Word: pillars
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...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...
Hillary Coller '89, who last semester produced Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire in the Dunster House dining hall says, "It isn't so bad. You have to move all the tables out and then put them back in, but other than that it's O.K." But Liza DiPrima '89, who this spring directed two Tom Stoppard farces, The Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte, in the same space contends, "It's the worst...