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...architecture came to be known as the International Style. Of its many partisans--among them Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius in Germany, Theo van Doesburg in Holland--none was better known than Le Corbusier. He was a tireless proselytizer, addressing the public in manifestos, pamphlets, exhibitions and his own magazine. He wrote books--dozens of them--on interior decoration, painting and architecture. They resembled instruction manuals. An example is his recipe for the International Style: raise the building on stilts, mix in a free-flowing floor plan, make the walls independent of the structure, add horizontal strip...
...candy assembly line, stomping grapes in an Italian wine vat--were justly celebrated. But she was far more than a clown. Her mobile face could register a whole dictionary of emotions; her comic timing was unmatched; her devotion to the truth of her character never flagged. She was a tireless perfectionist. For one scene in which she needed to pop a paper bag, she spent three hours testing bags to make sure she got the right size and sound...
...very embarrassing. Majority Leader Dick Armey was on his way to the House when a staffer handed him an AP story declaring that "Bob Hope, the master of the one-liners and tireless morale-booster for servicemen from World War II to the Gulf War, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Thanks to her tireless campaigning, a scandal which discredited the Fianna Fail candidate, Ireland's electoral system of proportional representation and a fundamental change in the Irish electorate, Robinson prevailed in the November election...
...high school senior is one of millions of Americans who have hitched their computers to the tireless bull market. Once the preserve of a few computer-literate plungers, online trading could account for nearly 30% of the projected 227 million securities transactions at retail houses this year, according to Piper Jaffray, a Minneapolis, Minn., investment firm. "It's been on fire," Bill Burnham, a senior analyst at Piper Jaffray, says of online trading. "Hands down, it's the most successful area of consumer-based electronic commerce...