Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's a tall order. The CIA warns that Pakistan is planning another flight for its Ghauri missile. Both countries have balked at a test ban in the past and have refused to negotiate a halt to production of fissile material. India does not want U.S. meddling in Kashmir. Japan has agreed to cut its sizable economic aid, but Washington expects Europe to undercut sanctions and to trade with both countries. Even the U.S. is worried that severe economic penalties might only serve to create two basket-case countries with bombs. A costly arms race would be just as economically...
...Corbusier loved Manhattan. He loved its newness, he loved its Cartesian regularity, above all he loved its tall buildings. He had only one reservation, which he revealed on landing in New York City in 1935. The next day, a headline in the Herald Tribune informed its readers that the celebrated architect FINDS AMERICAN SKYSCRAPERS MUCH TOO SMALL. Le Corbusier always thought big. He once proposed replacing a large part of the center of Paris with 18 sixty-story towers; that made headlines...
Answering those questions is clearly a job for Father Lorenzo Quart, ace trouble-shooter at the Vatican's cloak-and-dagger Institute of External Affairs. Although lacking Agent 007's license to kill, Quart is distinctly Bondish: tall, cool, impeccably clad and cursed with dreamboat looks that fluster women into worrying if their lipstick is on straight...
...Standing tall in full-dress gray among his 900 fellow West Point graduates this Saturday will be a freshly minted U.S. Army officer, proudly ready to wear the "butter bars" of a 2nd lieutenant. But he is unique among his classmates in at least one respect: he is graduating only because he and another West Point cadet have figured out how to get away with marriage. Against U.S. Military Academy regulation they married; then they had a child, unmarried in order to graduate from the academy and, with commencement in sight, are apparently prepared to remarry and regain custody...
...rubberized beast. But at least he's faster. Says Devlin: "We realized that the reason behind the whole lumbering Godzilla was that they had to shoot a guy in a heavy-rubber monster suit and film in slow motion to give him some sense of scale." At 20 stories tall, says Devlin, "if you do the math, even if it walked at a gingerly pace, it's covering a lot of territory quickly." Adds Emmerich: "Godzilla can outrun any taxi, and that was the core idea for the movie. No one can catch it. Dean and I realized we could...