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...think this game was huge," Higdon said. "Instead of being two games below .500, now we are .500 and we have two more games before break. We get two wins there and then we're in great shape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Attitude | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

...took Literature and Arts B-33: "Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Architecture" last semester, we studied the United Nations headquarters in New York City as an example of the architect Le Corbusier's work. Driving past the U.N. this summer, I noted the characteristic window-walls and boxy shape. I was proud to have learned something useful in a Core class; I now had an erudite factoid for future cocktail-party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Isolated Interventionist | 1/3/1997 | See Source »

...Yale's offense takes the shape of Air Siedlecki, gridiron fans can be sure that Murphy's steel curtain will thwart any attacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Siedlicki Will Replace Carm Cozza As Coach of the Yale Football Team | 1/3/1997 | See Source »

...long ago there was a flurry of excitement in the FBI task force when someone spotted a shape on top of the bench during the period when the bomb is thought to have been planted. The video was sent, along with other promising graphic finds, to a state-of-the-art National Aeronautics and Space Administration imagery facility, where it was digitally enhanced. But the video did not give up its secrets. "It's a black blob," says Kennedy. "You can't tell if it's a person. You can't tell if the backpack is there or under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPIAN EFFORTS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...building stands apart from the rest of the city. Using some local construction techniques combined with sophisticated three-dimensional computer modeling, the two architects maintained consistency with the surrounding buildings but added Gehry's signature whimsy. Ginger isn't twirling like that just for fun, though--her kinked shape means the view of the Prague castle from a neighboring apartment house is minimally obscured. This, clearly, is the new Prague, just as the Charles Bridge is the old. Like Fred, it has some stunning moves; like Ginger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST DESIGN OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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