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...probably will fall to Ed's 25-year-old sister Maizie, who will be a brides maid. Then, reversing the White House pattern of more than 100 years ? brides customarily change to traveling clothes and sneak away ? Tricia and Eddie will leave by the North Portico in full wedding regalia while the guests pelt them with rose petals...
...Incisive. At first sight, it does not look like a theater at all. Johansen designed it in terms of distinct units-blocks of raw concrete with brightly painted steel cladding, connected by tubes and catwalks. Nothing could be more remote from the idiom of the theater as temple-massive portico and formidable foyer suggesting, in the manner of Lincoln Center, that the audience is going to be vouchsafed a peek at the altar of some crushing god named High Culture. The Mummers Theater, by contrast, with its simple materials and modest scale, does not try to stimulate the audience...
...While attending a state funeral in 1835, Andrew Jackson was shot at but unharmed as he stepped from the rotunda to the Capitol portico. In 1915, the old Supreme Court Chamber in the Senate Wing of the Capitol and a reception room were bombed by a college professor angered over U.S. munitions sales to Britain. In 1954, Puerto Rican Nationalists opened fire from a House gallery, wounding five Congressmen on the floor below...
...meeting heads of state, we're talking to people who make history," she wonderingly exclaims. "Each time I go to the White House it's a special thrill ?and we go there often now. You make that turn into the grounds you sweep up to the portico, and I think, 'It's mine! It's ours!' Washington is so exciting. It's almost too much of a good thing...
...famous sites. But the signs of the celebrated stoa-which was about 60 ft. long and 20 ft. wide-are clearly apparent to the trained eye. Still visible amid the rubble are the base outlines of twelve Doric columns that ancient chronicles say guarded the eastern base of the portico. So too are markings from the three walls that enclosed the rest of the building. In fact, the north wall is still lined with remnants of the stone benches on which some of Socrates' judges may have...