Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never been even faintly tempted by the clutter of secondhand allusion and quotation that infested so much Post-Modernist building in America and elsewhere--the kind of stuck-on, boutique historicism represented by Philip Johnson's 1984 Chippendale-top skyscraper for AT&T in New York City or Robert Stern's recyclings of the Shingle Style. It may be that PoMo quotation, of which a gutful has been served up over the past 25 years, served a useful purpose in reminding architecture's public that, yes, there was indeed a vast repertory of form and ornament on which early, messianic...
...seems in absolute control and comfort, his collar opened low on his famous chest. His head inclines towards the left and downward, the eyes lowered to the page and obscured to the viewer. The white, trimmed beard is dignified, the coming together of his lips stern--as if the writing itself deserved a scolding, or the photographer--but also somehow satisfied; a few concise lines mark his forehead. He is a very good-looking and imposing man; actually, he looks a great deal like Sean Connery...
Doug Akin walks into The Big Easy Bar on Boylston Street. A stern bouncer and a beautiful girl holding the VIP list promptly block his path. Akin doesn t seem like a man a club would turn away. Handsome and well-dressed, everything from his ID to his shoes checks out. Is he an enemy of the guy throwing the party? Not quiteahe IS the guy throwing the party. The beautiful girl is holding out the VIP list for his final check of approval; the bouncer is deferring people hoping to catch a word with the young host...
...during the Cultural Revolution but did not get sent down. "She was one of those people who did everything well," says her friend Yan. With grandparents educated at Oxford and parents educated at Harvard, Chen had the pedigree for success, as well as the stern expectations. Joan's father kept asking what she was going to do with her life. "In my family," Chen says, "going into acting was regarded as strange...
...remain a victim of my fears. The New York City parks department, which claims dogs do $250,000 worth of damage each year to park lawns in Manhattan, is going to hand out cell phones to volunteers willing to turn in owners of unleashed dogs. Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern told me that he would put me on the list for a phone but that the program hadn't been started yet because he was waiting for a cell-phone company to give him some second-hand ones. I was going to tell him just to wait for a leash...