Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleged memo. Nathan Lewin, an attorney representing Meese in the ongoing probe, termed the allegation "reprehensible" and "false in important respects." Lewin declared that "no actual or potential violation of law was brought to Mr. Meese's attention during his limited participation in discussions regarding the project." He too declined to say whether there was such a memo...
...that in late 1984 Israel was approached, first by Jordan, then by Iraq, for assurances that the ) pipeline would not be attacked. After high-level government discussion in late 1984 or early 1985, the official said, "we told them, go ahead, and have never heard a word about the project since...
None of these petty objections can overcome the fact that, if properly approached, the Quad Ice Project is a thing of lyrical and exotic beauty. For this to become readily apparent to the uninitiated requires the willing viewer to assume a more poetic and fantastical frame of mind than is his wont. Tap the vein of poetry latent within us all. Think, not bathroom windows, but towering glaciers. Or, if the bathroom window resemblance remains inescapable, try to overcome its more prosaic implications. These are not ordinary frosted windows; these are the bathroom windows of your dreams, though slightly colder...
...honesty, levity aside, the Quad Ice Project is well worth a visit. While the steel poles and wire mesh may not be to everyone's liking, the ice itself is of truly breathtaking beauty. Michael Van Valkenburgh has created an environment in which it is impossible to ignore what is so easily ignored: the very essence of the beauty that is winter...
...this exhibit is to be excessively cold, but it is also to appreciate the spectacular inherent in even the most prosaic of all materials. Van Valkenburgh allows the ice to show itself. The Radcliffe Quadrangle Ice Project is precisely that, a demonstration of ice, of its limitations, its beauty and the hold it has on all of our imaginations...