Word: toweritis
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...began sculpting in Leningrad in the late 1960s. There, out of sight of the authorities, he poured his sarcasm and frustration at the Soviet Union's dead hand on artistic and cultural freedom into giant, busy works built of scrap iron and wooden carvings such as the precarious Pisa Tower - a collection of Jewish figures struggling frantically to keep their balance - or Noah's Ark, a warped bestiary sailing forever in search of dry land...
...HCAP Web site. The conference was packed with thematic events, including a lecture by Professor Charles H. Langmuir, who teaches Science B-35: “How to Build a Habitable Planet,” a trip to New York to meet with the architect of the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero, and a presentation by the Allston Development Group.The themes and accompanying activities vary year to year and continent to continent: at the 2007 Hong Kong University conference, Bruemmer remembers her delegation’s tour of an import-export company. “It was really incredible, because...
Current Vice President Carlos Lage, 56, who shares Raul's less ideological economic policy vision, stands to tower over diminished fidelistas like Alarcon and Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. Perez, 42, once considered a leader of the youthful fidelista hardliners known as los Taliban, has seen his stature particularly reduced under Raul - to the point that he was compelled late last year to endorse Cuba's acceptance of an international human rights accord, something Fidel had criticized as a violation of the island's sovereignty but which Raul had decided was necessary to begin thawing relations with...
...son’s enrollment at Harvard Law School, can often send dinner conversations into a Crimson overload. In fact, the couple has instated a “Two-Minute Harvard Rule,” requiring non-university topics to take precedence after the unavoidable two minutes of Ivory Tower chatter...
...According to Pertile, if you want love, you needn’t look further than Eliot House. Need proof? Couples “go up the tower to pop the question,” says Pertile. “We’ve already seen babies that have come out of Eliot House marriages...