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...model, drawings and photographs at MOMA of Neutra's famous Lovell House, built between 1927 and 1929 in the arid Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, still quicken the viewer's heartbeat. There had been nothing like it before, nor was there to be anything like it during that decade, not even in avant-garde Europe, where Mies van der Robe's pristinely trend-setting steel-and-glass Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was completed a year later...
Ruskin was the precocious child of doting parents, as Historian Joan Abse relates in this vigorous, compassionate biography, and his life through middle age was a struggle to free himself from their loving tyranny. "My mother had never let me play cricket lest it should quicken my pulse, step into a boat lest I should fall out the other side," he wrote wistfully. When he matriculated at Oxford, she followed him and took lodgings there, to oversee his physical and spiritual health. She was a fierce evangelical Protestant, and her husband, a prosperous and essentially self-educated wine importer...
...plan is plainly designed to quicken the interest of fans and make turnstiles click faster. Exults Mick McHugh, a rabid Seattle Mariners fan whose team was 14% games out of first place: "It's like a guy on death row, and all of a sudden they say, 'We're gonna commute your sentence.' It's a new lease on life." Adds Manager Bill Virdon, whose Astros were mired in third place after winning their division last year: "Every city has a chance to get back into baseball fresh. And a fresh start is what everybody...
...Western diplomats in the Middle East also feared that the Arabs might feel forced to launch a retaliatory attack of some kind against the Israelis to recover their honor after yet another humiliation. Such an attack would certainly be answered by the Israelis, and the cycle of violence would quicken...
...this year's $30 billion, and Japan figures that it will be paying out another $5 billion on top of 1980's $60 billion. In the U.S. the oil tab will also rise by $5 billion, to perhaps as high as $100 billion. Higher crude prices will quicken the pace of inflation in all Western countries. Washington experts predicted that in the U.S. the OPEC decision would boost the cost of gasoline at the pump by 4.70 per gal. and the price of heating oil by the same amount...