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...past few years, however, there's been a Saarinen reappraisal. Set free by computer-aided design, contemporary architects like Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid have moved quite a distance from Modernist orthodoxy. And a great deal of Saarinen's work, especially his adventures in fluid geometry, today looks as if it's the predecessor of theirs. It's easier now to regard his expressive buildings as a principled attempt to reconcile the Modernist drive to purify and clarify with the abiding human desire for something that strikes other, warmer and no less essential chords. (See pictures of modernist...
...Gateway Arch, the muscular reach of the tilted pylons of Washington's Dulles International Airport, the black-granite palisades of the CBS headquarters, his only skyscraper, a thing that appears to shoot skyward from the bedrock of Manhattan - these are works of an architect, like Gehry and Calatrava today, who was thinking in sculptural terms...
...like French fries, and I probably shouldn't eat them very often. I actually came up with a rule: Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. One reason we struggle with obesity today is that special-occasion foods like French fries, cakes and cookies have become so easy to obtain...
...just felt like I had a little bit of an advantage,” Foote said. “I was catching it deep and getting good position. Today I was able to slow myself down, really gather myself, and go into my moves that I’m effective with...
...hard work from his supporters and fair play from his opponents. Like Obama, Roosevelt was confronted with the task of actively restoring government’s credibility in an age of dramatic economic inequality and misconduct. Although Teddy didn’t face massive unemployment as Obama faces today, he did have to confront an economic elite disconnected from the public interest. To counter these foes, TR had to harness the power of populist anger without letting it define him. Obama must now do the same...