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...CHOCKABLOCK with fountains, almost all of them officially described as new-age outdoor-air-conditioning systems. Water gushes and gurgles almost everywhere. Architect Nicholas Grimshaw's pavilion for the United Kingdom, a fine, robust example of the high-tech style at which the British excel, is the grandest, sleekest Expo aquatecture of all: the whole plate-glass facade, 60 ft. high and 235 ft. long, is a waterfall. A lovely, quirkier glass-wall waterfall, the work of the New York architecture firm SITE, defines a promenade along one of the Expo avenues. For almost a quarter- mile...
Sandy Nista (Erik Anderson '92), the mob leader's girl, has the show's sleekest figure and offers some of the snidest repartee...
...Reaganism has now and then been perceived as social Darwinism, the idea that the sleekest beast with the sharpest teeth is the fittest to survive (Ivan Boesky in the skin of a panther), the new emphasis, among Republicans as well as Democrats, is upon the practice of a kind of governmental "tough love," an aggressive compassion designed to end dependencies and get people self-sufficient and back to work as quickly as possible. In the 1980s there is ^ an acute awareness of the nation's economic limits and of the intractability of many problems...
...also the public perception of his entire line. Only the press, the buyers and a few friends see any designer's work whole. In this way, buyers are a little like producers who look at a movie and pick out some of the best scenes to make the sleekest short subject...
...young actors (notably Sandor Soth and Maria Ronyecz) prove as adept at miming edgy idealism as any gang outside Hollywood High. A few weeks ago, Time Stands Still was deemed best foreign-language film of 1982 by the New York Film Critics Circle. It is certainly one of the sleekest and easiest to enjoy...