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Agnew was a dishonest official, thrust into a position of visibility by Richard Nixon's crass political judgement in 1968. Nixon's man became a surrogate for his administration in speaking tours around the nation; now Agnew has become a symbol of Republican corruption...
...architect to expect a more spectacular site. Bennelong Point in Australia's Sydney Harbor is almost encircled by water. There is green parkland behind it, and to the west new skyscrapers and the arching, spidery profile of Harbor Bridge. Any structure built on the point would be thrust forward in a vast parenthesis of sea and air, displayed like sculpture on a plinth, and visible from almost every angle of the harbor. It would not be part of a street-not, therefore, "façade" architecture...
...After launching new towns in the country and apartment projects in cities, the UDC turned to the New York City suburbs, asking nine middle-income commuting communities to accept some 900 units of such housing. Citizens' groups in the towns immediately balked, saying that the UDC should not thrust itself into their affairs...
While the tunnel may well be the best possible way to maintain Britain's thrust into Europe, it will have its victims. Impassioned objections have come from the Kentish villages that will be most affected. Residents are justifiably worried that their green and pleasant countryside will turn into a nightmarish octopus of access roads and tracks leading to and from the tunnel terminus. Complained William Hunt, 46, of Newington: "We don't count. We're like a pea on top of a mountain. If they don't want us, they just flick us away...
Sean followed Francis in name and profession. He served an apprenticeship as stunt man, grip, cameraman and finally director. At first he was merely a foreman, grinding out bathetic stories of cowpokes in leather and gals in gingham. But with The Iron Horse (1924), Ford was abruptly thrust into the front ranks of American film makers. In the tale of a son's search for his father's murderer, Ford composed a stark sagebrush Odyssey that was to echo in almost all his later work. The forces of nature and fate were given substance; the backdrop of plains...