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...drawbacks to the House's grand architecture is its long staircases--the House has no elevators--and the House's high ceilings make for long walks. The narrow spiral staircases in Randolph Hall, the building between Linden and Plympton Streets, also make it a difficult to carry items such as couches and futons up to the fourth floor...
...time trading was finished for the day, the Dow had plunged 3.7 percent, or nearly 400 points. The downward spiral was aided by the Street's current climate of uncertainty, courtesy of Alan Greenspan's repeated indications that he'll raise interest rates until the stock market bubble deflates. "Greenspan is targeting the NASDAQ, which is totally inflated with all those tech stocks," says Kadlec. "But unfortunately, the Dow is really being caught in the crossfire." But not even the NASDAQ went unscathed today. After surpassing 5,000 for the first time ever in Tuesday morning's trading, the tech...
...poor man's Frank Gehry, the building makes little attempt externally to interact with its environment, strange given the emphasis one would expect to be placed on such a dialogue here on the rez. Things get both better and worse on the museum's inside. A spiral ramp draws the visitor artfully from the large atrium that dominates the entrance level of the structure down into the main exhibition spaces. Here, however, the museum's displays and those who view them almost manage to defeat the museum's entire enterprise...
...House of Beef, Ricky was writing his college entrance essay in support of keeping the House of Lords. Ricky's fanaticism started in the fourth grade when an English transfer student offered him a copy of Pride and Prejudice in the playground. Since then it has been a downward spiral into the bowels of English culture. Yet the freshman declined to study in England in lieu of the lesser Cambridge School, Harvard...
Flight 261 never made it to the ground. After a long, agonizing struggle with the lurching aircraft, punctuated by two loud noises, the twin-engine MD-83 hurtled toward the Pacific in a grim death spiral--"spinning," "corkscrewing" and "nose down," in the words of eyewitnesses. When the plane made its high-speed crash into the water 40 miles from Los Angeles, all 83 passengers and five crew members were apparently killed instantly...