Word: stones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course every building at Harvard comes with its own share of stories to tell, from the "remove-no-stone" edict which accompanied Mrs. Widener's gift to the curious absence of doors on the Holyoke Center. And Maxwell Dworkin has its own share of peculiarities...
...artist of immense detachment, he was also capable of the most cutting insights. His New York streets populated by freaks, stone-faced cops and ghastly youths of both sexes in Mickey Mouse hats are proof of that: the Mickey Mouse face, he told an interviewer, is "without character or age; for me it represents the junk-food people, the TV children, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." Nobody could say Steinberg was a particularly warm or approachable person. He loathed mediocrity and made no secret...
...past few weeks, employees say, dust from construction crews drilling concrete, brick, and stone has filled...
...strategy behind this extension of the NATO air war against Slobodan Milosevic has a devilish design: to break the spirit of the Serbian people by depriving them of modern conveniences. When military planners refer to "bombing them back to the Stone Age," this is what they have in mind: everything from bridges to television stations has become a target. Many Serbs are now living by candlelight, eating food that doesn't require refrigeration and sleeping--if they can sleep at all--with the uneasy knowledge that 0.07% of NATO's bombs do go astray. Not surprisingly, as the allied target...
...billion partnership with Microsoft, AT&T and chairman C. Michael Armstrong have completed the first stages of a plan to remake the famously ponderous long-distance telephone company into a new-economy supernova. And if it seems hard to imagine that the cable bringing you Matlock reruns and Stone Cold Steve Austin will be your sole electronic connection with the outside world, get used...