Word: thunderbolts
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Though Abraham hates the illusionistic flourishes of postmodernism, the Forum's thunderbolt profile can't help suggesting an Alpine fir tree or maybe the mountain slopes he knew in his youth as a champion skier. Even he compares the building to a guillotine blade--not a bad image for a building that has cut through Manhattan's architectural doldrums. For four decades, developers have crammed the skyline with featureless boxes or high-rise gimmicks like Philip Johnson's Chippendale-top Sony headquarters. Now the city faces its most important urban-design decision in years: what to put where the World...
...leafing through The Crimson, I came across a quarter-page ad on the sports page, sadly impeding coverage of the Belarus-Sweden hockey game. “DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?” it screamed. “SURVIVOR: Open Casting Call.” The thunderbolt struck—and suddenly my post-graduation plans involved lying, cheating, stealing and starving...
Economic Affairs Asst. Larry Lindsey Thunderbolt Lindsey...
...Just then, a huge thunderbolt strikes the mountain right near Christ's statue. Maybe God is a Papa Roach fan and didn't like my sarcasm. I suddenly realize that I'm standing on top of a mountain in a thunderstorm and my only transportation down is in a steel cable car held up by steel cables. I try to keep my eyes on Cristo Redentor the whole way down...
...Mayor Marion Barry's) but was little known until he became Bill Gates' bete noire. The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial could be gruff ("You are not planning to totally rearrange my room, are you?" he asked our photographer) but was known as open-minded and moderate. His thunderbolt rulings were hardly mild though. He called the Windows maker an "untrustworthy," "disingenuous" monopoly and ordered its breakup. The decision is under appeal, but Microsoft's stock price has yet to recover. This baritone needed no mike to bring down Gates' house...