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...exacerbated by the reflection from architect RICHARD MEIER's tan aluminum panels on the outside of the building. Employees now wear dark sunglasses as part of their work uniform. After the December opening--coincidentally, after Meier left--umbrellas were set up to provide some relief on the virtually shadeless plaza. But the glare isn't all. During the winter, visitors were slipping into the lovely rain-swollen pools because they couldn't distinguish where the travertine ground ended and the water began. And while the violations have been corrected, the health department initially graded two of the Getty restaurants...
...exacerbated by the reflection from architect Richard Meier?s tan aluminum panels on the outside of the building. Employees now wear dark sunglasses as part of their work uniform. After the December opening -? coincidentally, after Meier left ?- umbrellas were set up to provide some relief on the virtually shadeless plaza. But the glare isn?t all. During the winter, visitors were slipping into the lovely rain-swollen pools because they couldn?t distinguish where the travertine ground ended and the water began. And while the violations have been corrected, the Health Department initially graded two of the Getty restaurants...
Though not as sad to he among the living there Along the avenues I saw the poor and dark-shinned waiting shadeless in the level heat and metallic air. They seemed forgotten people waiting for the time...
...opening "purple silence" of a shadeless summer's day we anticipate the novel's first steps. A stranger walks slowly into the landscape, this "frame of almost human expectancy," and advances, with Hardy-like fatality, toward the summer house of a famous old astronomer who seems to have "already reached the end of the world." A violently freakish tempest roars...
...Shadeless, it swam in the sun-swept field...