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Wright's life-span alone is astonishing: his career extended from the beginning of the Gilded Age to the last days of the American Century, from the sod house to the shopping mall. Born in rural Wisconsin to a charming, feckless musician-preacher and a high-strung, single-minded mother -- they divorced when Frank was a teenager -- Wright was inculcated with an overweening sense of his talent and destiny. Anna Wright may have been the first atelier mother: she pushed him hard to become an architect when he was still a child, providing a special set of designer-in-training...
...ended up like living in arooming group of 20, complete with all the toysand entertainment that 20 roommates bring. Jimcharmingly strung dental floss through his nostriland out of his mouth (feel that burn!) and Marccould be depended upon to say something biting anddry, when he wasn't sleeping and you could hearhim over his stereo (just bust a move). We had aditz and a femme fatale, a musician, a dancer, amovie star's son and a mohawked ex-debutante. Weeven had a kitten...
Wigglesworth, the Yard's mostoddlyshaped dorm, consists of several unconnectedsections strung out along busy Mass. Ave.Wigglesworth residents may never meet the studentsin their neighboring entries. If the dorm lackscohesiveness, however, it scores high points forquality of living. Its spacious triple andquadruple suites have a close-up view of livelystreet activity, and traffic quiets down late atnight so residents can sleep...
...problem is exquisitely inconceivable. After spending millions of dollars coaxing hundreds of thousands of smokers into making one of the most difficult decisions of their life, the three U.S. patch distributors failed to produce enough to go around. Recent quitters, a high-strung group in the best of times, suddenly found themselves in an unnerving game of musical patches. "It's like a suicide hot line with a busy signal," says Jan Westmier, a former self-described chimney from Berkeley who finally got a supply of patches last month. Seattle carpenter Robert Gould just gave...
...wake up in the middle of the night. I'm not strung out. You see, I have a very strong feeling that we all have a thermostat setting on stress...