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...gave as an example the task of designing the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. The Museum was planned for a tight triangular space close to a cathedral. Hollein envisioned the cathedral as a "ship," and created an edifice resembling a "ship" traveling in the opposite direction...
...going to turn the giant ship of Harvard Law School around," Nader said, "so that it can go down in history as one of the greatest instruments of justice and institution building of any group in the United States...
Meet Brad Wilford, who has proven this year that he belongs at the helm of the Crimson's ship. Time and time again, Wilford baffled the Big Green defense by finding wide-open receivers downfield and burned Dartmouth for three touchdowns...
...follow this spirited skeptic as she looks at lightning head on (in a lighthouse), escapes to sea on a whaling ship (dressed, in Shakespearean fashion, as a boy) and takes Captain Ahab (who has the "mien of a weathered god") to her bed. Naslund is helping us, of course, to see the all-male world of Moby Dick through more compassionate eyes, and its protagonist as he might be glimpsed through "pity's tears." Yet what is remarkable here is not the revisionism. Naslund, author of four much smaller works of fiction, actually matches the master, Melville...
Dressed to the nines in tuxedoes and bow ties, dresses and heels, over 100 people headed for the Owl final club's booze cruise Wednesday night. But their ship never left port...