Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES...
...every day for the past five weeks, a drama that will change the nation's future spending priorities has been unfolding in a high-ceilinged Victorian room of Washington's Executive Office Building. Seated along one side of a 17-ft. table, facing into the glare of sunlight, budget examiners responsible for knowing the spending plans of every federal agency have defended their estimates. Seated across from them-and grilling them-have been their bosses, the top officials of the Office of Management and Budget, headed by Caspar Weinberger, who is known in Washington these days...
...Paris. With it, he burst out of the Bauhaus box and turned to concrete, becoming more adventurous in its use than any other U.S. architect except perhaps I.M. Pei. He faceted façades with angled, deep-set windows, niches and geometrical shapes-all enlivened by the play of sunlight against shadow. At his IBM research center in La Gaude, near the Côte d'Azur, he elevated the entire building on Y-shaped sculptural columns that a less bold designer would have let stand straight. Indeed, the dominant theme in his design of other big buildings...
...more California makers are dating even their mediocre products. Does vintage really matter? If a vine gets too little sun or too much rain one year, the grapes are likely to end up with a low sugar content and ferment into acidic, watery wine. If there is too much sunlight, the grapes can shrivel like raisins and produce overly sweet wine. In Europe, where such meteorological metamorphoses are fairly dramatic from year to year, vintage dating has an indisputable raisin d'être. But in California, where sunlight is plentiful and rainfall consistent, one year's wine...
Many of those who harvest the sugar crop in Louisiana live in shacks that were once used by slaves. The walls are so worn that sunlight filters through. With an annual wage of about $2,750, the average sugar-cane worker has five children, and their diet is so poor that by the age of twelve their bodies are like those of people 50 years...