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...modern design: distilling a complicated business into one simple symbol almost inevitably results in bland, meaningless abstraction. Vanderbyl's best occupy that ambiguous zone just this side of abstraction; although highly refined, they suggest serendipity and imperfection, the real world in other words. For a World War II shipyard turned condo development, a star of horizontal stripes is given a trompe l'oeil, waving-flag wrinkle. For a printing company, a triangle is composed of lithographic printer's dots that actually muddle and blur...
...concentration camp by the Germans during World War II. Only two months after his release in 1945, Walesa's father died. At 24, the young rural mechanic, one of seven children, grew bored with his job and moved to the Baltic port of Gdansk, where he became a shipyard electrician. He describes himself as a typical peasant worker, "not really belonging to the city, nor the countryside, a wage earner in appearance only, profoundly attached to his farm." Such men and women were pragmatic, practicing Catholics with little interest in the abstract Communist orthodoxy of Poland's Soviet-backed rulers...
...assesses its possibilities." To drive home the point, authorities summoned Walesa and five members of the seven-man council for weekend questioning. Walesa described his 30-minute interrogation session as "cultured and friendly," but noted that there was still a "lack of understanding" by Polish officials. Said the Gdansk shipyard electrician: "At the moment there is no good will on the other side. There is no reasonableness...
...Shipyard Park Phase 3, a $2 million project, will add a treelined promenade bordering the present Shipyard Park in the Charlestown section, where the historic USS Constitution is berthed. The project also includes development of a 300-foot-long dock that can accommodate water taxi service in Boston Harbor...
...jobs or assistance from the state. Four months after the sudden shutdown which left the workers stranded, their plight has yet to come to the notice of the city, the state, or local media--in contrast to the prompt attention given to both the recent Colonial plant and Quincy Shipyard closings...