Word: pyramiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides stressing money, New York-based games, like Winning Streak or The $10,000 Pyramid, tend to resemble life in the city itself. They reward the ability to stand up under pressure -from the clock, from the fear of losing winnings accumulated in earlier rounds of competition. On the whole, they are more sedentary, rely less on flashy stagecraft for their appeal than the Los Angeles games...
Architect I.M. Pei set to work scaling down the project and last week released a new design which eliminated an 85-foot-high glass pyramid and two 350-seat auditoriums. Pei also redesigned the complex in brick, to blend in with the colonial motifs of the Harvard Houses which are across from the site...
...scaled-down library plans will cost only $15 million, $2 million less than the estimated cost for architect I.M. Pei's original design topped by a glass pyramid...
...original library plans contained provisions for an 85-foot glass pyramid and two 350-seat theaters. Pei eliminated the pyramid and the theaters, however, from the design last April...
...KENNEDY LIBRARY has been a sad effort. The obstinacy of both sides just convolutes the whole issue, everyone gets heated, a lot happens, and nothing ever gets done. During the first week in April, Pei cut out the glass pyramid, the City Council by a 5-4 vote reaffirmed its desire to see the library constructed in Cambridge, and an advisory committee of Harvard and MIT professors met with representatives of Maguire. The same week Maguire requested a two-week extension on its contract and students in the Graduate School of Design announced they would take a poll...