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Guggenheim plans to build an aqueduct and reservoir system using already existing houses and other structures. Aqueducts from roof to roof will empty into infrequently used eight-foot high granaries...
...masterwork The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. This rich, elusive composition is a bulwark against interpretation; it contains satires and celebrations of mechanics, Christian mysticism and sexual fantasy−including some of Duchamp's cherished obsessions, a "male" chocolate grinder and a mechanical bride with a reservoir of "love gasoline." The Bride is no facile construction, as Duchamp makes clear in detailed annotations reminiscent of Da Vinci's code notebooks. The artist worked on his construction for eight years, then abandoned his Bride−and art−in 1923. Incomplete, indecipherable, broken and repaired, the large...
...issue to opponents' arguments, that of public safety. But at the same time, it recommended "that Harvard take no active steps to attempt to prevent construction...such as refusing to sell to Con Ed the 240 acres of the Black Rock that will be flooded by the storage reservoir or by presenting this land to the Palisades Interstate State Park before Con Ed can obtain ownership...
Against Cornwall: The City of New York has informed the City of Cornwall that if it gives its reservoir to Consolidated Edison for the Storm King project, it may not tap into New York City water supplies. New York City opposes the power project on the grounds that it could damage the Catskill Aqueduct, which supplies about 40 per cent of the city's water...
Since World War II, ROTC has shifted towards recruiting highly-skilled career soldiers and professional specialists to meet the needs of a smaller, more technically sophisticated military. During the sixties, only those ROTC students who enlisted to forestall the draft were likely to maintain an independent "civilian consciousness." This reservoir of prospective civilian-oriented ROTC cadets no longer exists...