Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the early 1950s, the complex is a complete preview, in miniature,of Tange's architectural career. Nearly all of his low-rise, high-modern ideas are on display: the International Style box, the inverted cone, the rough concrete pillars, the swooping concrete shell. The details have a light touch; the forms are blessedly simple. Tange's best designs embody heavenward sweep, a figurative and literal uplift. The central feature of a printing plant in Numazu (1954) is a great set of steel trusses, a wing- like cantilever from which the factory's glass walls hang...
...human-animal bond has long lifted spirits at home, and now is bringing that touch of hearth to institutional settings. In U.S. prisons, the Birdman of Alcatraz has numerous descendants. In Lima, Ohio, at a facility for mentally ill inmates, part of the courtyard resembles a barnyard. Sheep, goats, ducks, rabbits -- even deer -- roam around. "We're finding the prisoners who have pets are less violent," says Psychiatric Social Worker David Lee. In a double bonus, women inmates in Gig Harbor, Wash., are training special dogs to aid the handicapped. For one family with a daughter who suffers from...
...perfect touch at the end of an imperfect evening...
...worked very hard to try to be in touch with minority law professors around the country to follow their work and to bring people here on a visiting basis who we think are promising minority candidates," Vorenberg said in an interview last night...
...this is only the start. After an idyllic interlude, the trio are rescued by a British merchant vessel and taken back to England. Before he can touch soil, Susan's last great love, Crusoe, dies of woe, sighing for his island. In London, Susan finds her way to a tale spinner significantly surnamed Foe -- Defoe's real name -- and persuades him to tell her story. But Foe keeps emphasizing the wrong themes. Susan rebels and then suffers remorse. "I am growing to understand why you wanted Crusoe to have a musket and be besieged by cannibals," she writes...