Word: ruggedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This idea is carried even farther in Aalto's latest building, Finlandia House, Helsinki's concert and convention center, where the European security conference was held (TIME, Aug. 4). Standing alone in a bayside park, it looks like a beached iceberg-an immense, rugged structure clad in snowy...
Pinter, by contrast, is the only son of a Jewish tailor from London's rugged East End. Darkly handsome with thinning hair, he spent almost a decade as a stage actor, turned to writing in the 1950s, and soon developed into an acclaimed, though sometimes confounding chronicler of English...
The closest thing I can think of to describe this movie is a scene from Alan Pakula's The Parallax View. Warren Beatty, a reporter uncovering a assassination conspiracy, finds that the huge Parallax Corporation is recruiting potential killers by a set of complex psychological tests designed to isolate psychopathic...
The appeal of rugged Rotel travel lies chiefly in its remarkably low cost. A month-long southern Africa tour costs only $1,500, for example, including the charter flight, and takes passengers 6,000 miles from Rhodesia through Mozambique to Capetown and up the west coast to Angola. A 30...
What Banfield is subtly arguing for is a new kind of rugged individualism. If the lower class is to follow the good path of middle-classification, its members must work hard and forego the sex and action of the streets. They must adopt the Protestant work ethic and not squander...