Word: toweritis
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...tenured Harvard professor is afraid to speak on the record, might I be in for more than I bargained? Has the Ivory Tower Mafia put the kibosh on chit-chat for secret, sordid reasons best left unexplored? More important, can tweed coats carry switchblades? Do corduroy patches cover gang signs? Are the cops going to find my mangled remains in a cement factory down the road from the next Modern Language Association convention...
...along with Jose Basulto, the group's leader, set out for a typical search and rescue mission. But only Basulto's plane would return. As reported on the Brothers' website (), the planes "identified themselves with Cuban radar control as was customary and continued to radio their position to Havana tower periodically throughout the flight...
...edifice complex. Now Las Vegas, having grown up so fast, wants to outgrow its tacky past. The new Venetian, Bellagio, Paris and Mandalay Bay hotels conjure fantasy excursions to faraway places--a gondola ride through an indoor canal ($12), say, or a trip to the top of the Eiffel Tower ($8). The frantic theming and ubiquitous Wolfgang Puck eateries--which make Vegas one of the best restaurant cities in the U.S.--are artful distractions from all that money visitors lose...
Even if a building is not sliced and shredded at the design stage, there is another way in which the box is being overwhelmed. The standard office tower can be covered these days with electronic signage, huge liquid-crystal display screens, Jumbotron TVs and zip strips of news and stock quotes. Modernism forbade the use of carvings and other decorative attachments on building surfaces. That created something like an optical vacuum that advertising is finally moving to fill. In such places as New York City's Times Square, billboards and electric signage are becoming the ornamentation of the information...
Dorm Crew will continue cleaning the Mather House tower bathrooms on Thursdays and Fridays...