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...Starck spent $10 million, so it is claimed, and the visitor in the torn trench coat has to admit that what Schrager and Rubell got for this bundle is momentarily, at any rate, the least boring public building in Manhattan. Some of it works; some of it doesn't; that is what is interesting. The chairs are, perhaps, too lively. Not just the ones that stab you -- also the ones made of mahogany laminate that have two normal legs on the front but only one stainless-steel leg at the rear, so that anyone who tilts backward rolls over abruptly...
...There were new owners, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, the Merry-Andrews who ran the wildly successful disco Studio 54 a decade before (and shared a cell in federal prison for evading taxes on the disco's income). To reinvent everything from door knobs to plumbing, they hired Philippe Starck, a Euro-glitz wild man usually described as a French biker-designer (he is French, rides a big motorcycle and designs things...
...coaches also picked the following players: defensive end Tom Csatari, defensive back Jack Manning and place-kicker Ted Perry from Dartmouth; offensive end Jesse Parks and defensive end Mike Evans from Columbia; guard Steve Curtis, defensive tackle Bob Saunders and linebacker Joe Parsons from Princeton; and center Walt Starck, defensive end Mitch Berger and tackle Mark Steiner from Harvard...
Parks, Marinaro, Bjorkland and Jauron all were chosen for a second year and Steiner, Kaliades and Jean moved up from the second team. Leslie, Starck, Jackson, Young, Manning and Colby all advanced from last year's honorable mention list...
Joining Ignacio and DeMars on the first team were center Skip Starck and defensive tackle Mark Steiner. Tight end John Hagerty, split end Denis Sullivan, guard Frank Veteran, and defensive end Mitch Berger were all given honorable mention...