Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first round of talks was held in a beach cabana. No aides were present and, except for Giscard, no one brought any briefing papers. Spotting the French leader's two notebooks, Carter quipped: "I see you've come well prepared...
...quarter of the year-round population (8,000) organized a No Mac committee, with support from summer visitors, including Singers James Taylor and Carry Simon, Actresses Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon, Authors John Updike and William Styron. Although the island has a Dairy Queen and several pizza joints, Henry Beetle Hough, editor of the Vineyard Gazette, denounced McDonald's as "a symbol of the asphalt-and-chrome culture." Warned Hough: "Its coming means that we will have succumbed at last to the megalopolis which we have dreaded." Last week the Vineyard Haven health board refused to issue a septic...
...Oldenburg. What A T & T will eventually make of this high-camp, post-Pop irony performing as status monumentalism is anyone's guess, but that is what Johnson has produced, and the fact is emphasized by the top of the building-the now famous "grandfather clock" pediment with its round operculum, through which the heating system will issue clouds of steam on cold days. This is yet another historicist joke, alluding to one of Johnson's favorites from the past-Boullée, whose vast panoramas of pyramids, masonry globes and smoking crematoria are among the singular documents of the early...
Like all high Tories, Johnson is now impatient with the idea that architecture can improve humanity. And also like them, he believes in the need for palaces, almost as a biological urge. "As birds have beautiful plumage," he intones, his round, George Meany glasses glinting like an owl's eyes, "so do we try to have beautiful buildings. There is no other purpose...
...inflammation. Padover shows the father of socialism distracting himself from the pain and humiliation of a carbuncle on the scrotum by quoting pornographic French verse in a letter to his German collaborator, Frederick Engels. More appealingly, there is a vignette of the whitebearded Marx trotting obediently on all fours round his London home, ridden by a five-year-old grandson. Marx's strengths and weaknesses are carefully chronicled: the affectionate relationship with his daughters, the Promethean capacity for work, the hopeless improvidence with money, the raging, pitiless hatreds for fellow Socialists who failed to follow his dictates. The least...