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...company will spend $81.8 million to spruce up the surrounding sidewalks and overhaul the purgatorial Times Square subway station. "We can create the most extraordinary buildings in the city and create a sense of place there," says Johnson. "It's better to do it all in one spot than plop, plop, plop buildings all over Times Square. I should think it will be more important than Rockefeller Center." Adds Burgee: "It's a great opportunity to make a center where there is not a center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Renewal, But a Loss Of Funk | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...could double for his own Tussaud waxwork, is an improbable Han Solo, but he still dances like a jive Astaire and earned audible swoons from teenage girls at the premiere. The film's 3-D effects are familiar but engineered with flair: an asteroid waits to plop in your lap, Fuzzball hovers adorably over your shoulder, and Huston's tentacle talons virtually shred your shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...against its episodic splendors? The end of a century -- and even more, the end of a millennium -- brings anxiety with it: the unavoidable doubts and mannerisms of the fin de siecle, when every kind of stylistic bubble rises to the cultural surface, swells and bursts with a soft plop and a whiff, while marsh lights flicker and the cultural promoters croak their Aristophanic chorus. The SoHo Tar Pits: heaven for the market, purgatory (or limbo, anyway) for judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Careerism and Hype Amidst the Image Haze | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...going to plop them down in every course, but we'll experiment with them in certain sections," says Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '52, adding that a section of calculus and a section of Social Analysis 10 will be computerized...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Apples for the students | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

Dispelling fears that it would plop a band of radical political commissars into the directors' chairs, the Mitterrand team recruited instead an impressive list of experienced economists, bankers and industrialists. The news was so reassuring to the country's jittery business and financial Establishment that stock values on the Paris Bourse rose by a full percentage point following the announcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Familiar Faces | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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