Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...address, Hayes--who dropped out of Harvard Law School to organize the first Earth Day in 1970--spoke at length about the damage being done to the environment on a global scale...
...address, Hayes--who dropped out of Harvard Law School to organize the first Earth Day in 1970--spoke at length about the damage being done to the environment on a global scale...
...small projects," said the Great Cham of baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris. Foster is too much of a democrat to echo that sentiment, but it's a fact that his imagination runs naturally on the epic scale and that, more surprisingly, large size doesn't diminish the humanistic and spiritual qualities of his buildings...
...designed megastructures that are at the forefront of eco-design as well as beautiful in their own right. He is a fine detailer--everything from the junctures of a beam to the cladding to the door handles comes out of the same relentless aesthetic concentration. But on the wider scale, Foster is also one of the great living manipulators of light and transparency. No other government building in the world, for instance, can boast anything as outright exhilarating as the great inverted cone sheathed in 360 mirrors that floods the Reichstag with daylight...
...PEACE Anti-American sentiment sparked by NATO's strikes on Kosovo made Monica Lewinsky's Russian publisher scale back the first print run of Istoriya Moniki (Monica's Story) from 50,000 copies to 10,000. But in its first week in stores, the tome has already sold out. Says a spokesperson for the publisher: "Men and women say she may be an awful person, her book may be trash, but they'll buy it all the same." The Starr report, it should be noted, sold mere hundreds in Russia...