Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural that Diane Legge Lohan, being a partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Chicago office, designs rather conventionally modern corporate buildings. But in her printing plant for the Boston Globe newspaper she has managed the improbable. With a long, gorgeous, barrel-vaulted main hall in particular, Lohan has again made industrial modernism beautiful -- and without a bit of frippery. W.G. Clark and Charles Menefee have accomplished their own unlikely feat with the cool, cool Middleton Inn: here are glass houses that delight as glass houses have not delighted in a generation. Overlooking a South Carolina river, the inn boasts rooms...
...changes. The losers may include companies in such capital-intensive industries as utilities, chemicals, semiconductors and steel, which will relinquish numerous tax breaks. The investment tax credit will be dropped, for example, and depreciation schedules will be stretched out from 19 years to 31.5 years for commercial buildings, making plant expansion a more expensive proposition...
Frances Webb '60, secretary of the RadcliffeAlumnae Association and a member of the Plant andGarden Society agreed that, "the Yard is a spacethat uplifts the spirit and involes a sense ofwhat is Harvard. It needs no embellishment, butsimplicity. We should emphasize restraint...
Incumbent Republicans captured both statewide races. Senator Warren Rudman won earily over former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody. Governor John Sununu, a defender of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, eked out a victory over Democrat Paul McEachern...
...perfect housewife. When she devotes virtually every moment to making her home a spotless museum of domestic art. When she scrubs a kitchen floor that already gleams like a Versailles mirror. When she obsessively dusts the TV set's rabbit ears and the leaves on her rubber-tree plant. When she spends hours preparing nouvelle cuisine dishes as meticulous as a Magritte. When she finds spiritual and even sexual fulfillment in her dogged servitude. When she renounces friends and hobbies to remain the model prisoner whose keeper is a husband with a wandering libido. When, on learning that Hubby...