Word: skyscraperism
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He's too anxious to "become" an ironworker. It's as though the wreckage of his life was so complete that he had to rebuild it like a skyscraper, and to Keep Himself Safe. He tries so hard to become an ironworker that part of him becomes a super-ironworker...
That, as it happens, is just what the Saudis did. After paying off their debts, they moved to their winter quarters at Geneva across the border from a gambling casino at Divonne-les-Bains in France. Monegasques were confident, however, that they would be back. One real estate agent reported...
Maze of Grass. Apart, that is, from earthwork artists. Unfortunately, the Newport show is short on earthworks -simply because land there costs too much. There is one piece by Richard Fleischner, in the grounds of Chateau-sur-Mer, that shows exactly the kind of unpretentious but intelligent relation that an...
At 16, Giroud became a film script girl, at 21 France's first female assistant director. During the Occupation she was active in the Resistance and after the war helped to found the popular women's weekly Elle and later L 'Express, for which she will continue...
Richard Ravitch, 41, studied law at Yale before becoming president of his family's HRH Construction Corp., whose volume totaled $150 million last year. In addition to erecting such well-known Manhattan structures as the Whitney Museum and Gulf & Western Building, Ravitch has attacked slum housing by putting up...