Word: skylights
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...book Frames of Mind, which was published in 1983. Since then, Gardner's ideas have received widespread attention and acceptance among parents and have been eagerly embraced by teachers. "Multiple intelligences is clearly the biggest thing right now," says Jim Bellanca, president of a teacher-training company called SkyLight Publishing and Training. Bellanca says that since 1992, SkyLight has provided training in MI to some 30,000 teachers and school administrators...
Gary Panter, designer: Pee Wee's Playhouse. The chamber is a concrete island floating in a burning sea of oil. Speakers are lowered onto the floor by their ankles through a skylight. Seating is quite diverse...
However, Adams House dining services is building a covered skylight conservatory for extra dining hall seating in the courtyard beside the Gold Room, said Leonard D. Condenzio, associate director of dining services...
Great performances have been easier to find than great plays on Broadway this season. Michael Gambon, making his U.S. stage debut last fall, stormed impressively through Skylight, a lesser work by David Hare. Antony Sher's luminous portrayal of English painter Stanley Spencer makes Pam Gems' Stanley look better than it probably is. Christopher Plummer is currently having a high old time impersonating the boozing thespian John Barrymore, though the vehicle, Barrymore, is little more than a facile stand-up monologue...
...peasant patriot, a mother, the god Mercury and William Tell, the mythic Swiss hero. This secular temple is the main branch of the Union Bank of Switzerland. Inside, there are acres of reddish brown Tessin marble. The ornate overhead moldings frame a 20-ft. by 30-ft. skylight. A uniformed guard approaches: "Who are you? What are you doing? Identification papers, please." Is this brusque aggressiveness necessary? "I am only following orders," he says in German...