Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longest suspension bridge in the world. Its soaring Gothic-arched towers also predicted the vertical city, whose chief element--the high, steel-framed palazzo block--had been adumbrated by Badger but reached its first maturity outside New York in the 1890s, in the buildings of Louis Sullivan and others...
...Sullivan (1856-1924) was America's first great modern architect. It's a curious twist of fate that, having written hundreds of thousands of words about architecture, he should be known to most people today by one phrase: "Form follows function." It became the motto of all functionalist designers, but it doesn't represent Sullivan's own ideas at all. He wasn't antidecoration. He was, rather, one of the greatest designers of decorative detail, in an age that excelled in it. But he insisted on the primacy of the main masses. Both this and the love of inventive detail...
...director, Louis Freeh, is not a master cover-up artist like Hoover. For decades, FBI scientists have not been qualified as experts in their field. In 1989 Frederic Whitehurst blew the whistle on the FBI lab, and now he is viewed as the culprit. But in 1979 William C. Sullivan, former assistant director in charge of the domestic intelligence division, published a book that stated, "The FBI laboratory is in fact a real-life counterpart of the busy workroom of the Wizard of Oz--all illusion... No one at the lab they run in Washington knows what he is doing...
...editor of the National Review, John O'Sullivan, has bravely stood up to the harassment he has received from the Thought Police of the left. He has also rebutted the claims made about the cover. Their eyes aren't slanted--get a ruler and check. The teeth are simply elongated, just as the rest of their faces are, one of the most common techniques in caricatures. The President is serving coffee (get it?), not herbal tea. The Vice-President is wearing a Buddhist monk's attire and carrying a money-filled pauper's pot because, surprise, he solicited thousands...
Other articles include a look at how states have responded to the recent changes in welfare law, an interview with Wyoming's Democratic Gov. Mike Sullivan and a discussion of President Clinton's national service program...