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...three tiers of curving glass setbacks fanning out in a vertically striped polygon. A canopy of pink and white glass panels dresses the base; a sliced-cylinder skylight emerges at the top. Inside, in a light-filled atrium, salmon pink terraces climb for 17 stories around a circular plaza. Glass elevators rise and fall along the outside of two towers. As little Dorothy once said, "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more...
...next 'image' of Chicago." Heaven forbid, says Architect Harry Weese. "Tinselly and decadent," he growls. "The building will be an oddity, like the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood." People are choosing up sides that way all over town--at parties, in editorial columns and on the plaza outside, where the curious come to praise Jahn or to bury...
...sees embodied in the luminous atrium, with its office tiers open to view. The free-flowing work space is rarely impeded by walls or doors; at one time, he even had hoped to leave visible the machinery of the escalators. Jahn also sees a democratic statement in his plaza and concourse, where a theater, shops and restaurants will bring rental income to the state while ensuring that this is a government office center that goes on living after 5 p.m. "The building ends up as a modern-day crystal palace," says Jahn. "But at the same time...
They call each other Ron-san and Yasu. That is only fitting, since Ronald Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone describe each other as good friends. So when they met for the fifth time, at the sleek Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles last week, their wide-ranging talks were amicable, leading to what Nakasone described as "complete agreement on all issues." Actually, the two leaders were able to reach only a vague accord on the stickiest issue of all: what the Japanese call boeki masatsu, or trade friction, and what American manufacturers call by less euphemistic epithets...
...provided a glamorous gloss for the image of the foreign correspondent. Heit has traditionally been a he-dashes from one cosmopolitan capital to another by first-class jetliner or Orient Express-style railway compartment; he puts up at such elegant hostelries as Claridge's in London or the Plaza Athénée in Paris, dining at Maxim's or its local equivalent; he hobnobs with celebrities and is on intimate terms with heads of government...