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Regarded with scorn and trepidation, the capital city remains uncomfortable but composed. By now, after all, it is used to being attacked, having in a sense been baptized in the War of 1812, when Rear Admiral Cockburn and his redcoats practically cooked the city alive. A violent storm followed the British, whipping roofs and chimneys off houses. Things looked up after that. The charred walls of the President's house were painted white, thus suggesting a new name. Eventually the mud streets were paved. A social life came waltzing in, followed briskly by a professional life and a business...
...current project, a design for an art museum in Portland, Maine. Again, the urban context complicates the demands of the program. Cobb's design is an attempt to assimilate the new building into the site: a large brick facade encloses a public square; the stepped levels of the rear connect the vast new structure with the smaller existing museum building. Red brick was chosen to match the vernacular buildings of the city...
Roscoe was patrolling Central Square in a one-man car at 4:29 a.m. when he observed a parked vehicle without a rear license plate on Cross Street...
...walking repertory theater of show-biz anecdotes, one-liners, elaborate routines (interestingly, he almost never tells a political anecdote). On the campaign plane, Nancy Reagan has made a ritual of rising a few moments after takeoff to roll an orange toward the emergency exit at the rear, which she usually manages to hit. When she is not along, Reagan takes over the routine and converts it into an act. Sometimes he is a bowler, sometimes a football player, frequently a pitcher squinting toward an imaginary catcher, shaking off sign after sign, going into a full windup before finally releasing...
...name of the portable game is features, but these bring up the cost. The first of these is the two-band unit, covering both AM and FM; it has a carrying strap and a rear mounted switch for selecting AM or FM, a telescoping antenna and a jack for an in-the-ear headphone. It's possible to pick up stereo FM stations but these portables are designed for mono only, and have just a single small speaker. The power source is a single 9-volt battery. Total weight, including the battery, is about 10 ounces...