Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architects' models for the station, perhaps the best parts of the exhibit, illustrate the difficulties of creating a spacious feeling in facilities which are usually claustrophobic. Greenhouse structures with glass panels open the entrances to natural light. Unfortunately, the artists seem to have conspired to ruin this effect. William Wainwright's plans to build a series of giant mobiles to hang from the glass roof seem misdirected. Although Wainwright's compositions of oblong chrome and reflecting prisms would be great in Boston-Boston, one wonders what they'll add to the station. Carolos Dorrien's granite wall piece stands nearby...
...sights: a gram elevator and loading dock that the Chinese specifically asked to see, a container loading dock and the Lockheed shipyard. In the afternoon, Teng was to visit the Boeing plant in Everett 30 miles north of Seattle. There, on the floor of the world's most spacious building (200 million cu. ft.), are eleven Boeing 747s in various stages of construction. After dinner with executives of five firms that do business with China (Dungeness crabs, oysters, and at Teng's request filet mignon) and a night's rest, Teng and his party would board their...
...lunchtime, Bui pulls into the driveway of the spacious four-bedroom, $36,000 house that he and his wife Simone have just bought and renovated. Three beautiful almond-eyed children rush up to greet him. "Gimmee some Co-ak," shouts 5½-year-old Thienan (nicknamed Firecracker) in a disconcerting Southern drawl. "I speak Vietnamese to him and he answers me in English," says Dr. Bui. Thien Nga, who at 3½ is nearly as tall as her brother, and Jo Ann, 2, both born in the U.S., compete for Bui's attention. The household also includes 14-year...
...sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard. His theme is betrayal, not so much of the American dream as of the inner health of the nation. He focuses on that point at which the spacious skies turned ominous with clouds of dread, and the amber waves of grain withered in industrial blight and moral...
Wagner basketball was born in a spacious manger by the name of Madison Square Garden on the night of November 24, 1978 and the midwife at courtside was a personable young coach by the name of P.J. Carlesimo. On that night the tiny school in Staten Island defeated nationally ranked Alabama in the Joe Lapchick Memorial Tournament by a score...