Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, designed nearly an acre of elegant, muted space with such tact that the architecture never overwhelms or interferes with what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on the other side of the museum-that contains the largest of the wooden figures. Enormous trouble was taken to safeguard the perishable organic materials of tribal art, the hair and wicker and wood and feathers, against the vagaries of New York's climate. Between them, the building and installation cost...
Nothing about the crash added up. The pilots were among the Air Force's finest. Their T-38 Talon twin-jet trainers are so easy to steer that flyers call them "baby buggies," and the line-abreast loop, spectacular as it looks, is a fairly routine maneuver. One speculation: the leader may have misjudged his altitude or speed, and the other three duplicated his error. Thunderbird Capt. Dale Cook was flying solo that day. Says he: "I really can't speculate on what may have gone wrong. When you are flying in formation you are not just watching...
BORN. To Alexander Karageorgevitch, 36, Washington, D.C., insurance executive and son of the late King Peter II, last monarch of Yugoslavia, and Maria da Gloria, 35, great-great-granddaughter of Pedro II, Brazil's last Emperor: twin sons, their second and third children; in Falls Church, Va. Names: Philip and Alexander...
...biggest, most complex and costliest corporate legal actions ever brought by the U.S. Government. Rightly or wrongly, they came to symbolize the relentless meddling that businessmen everywhere had learned to fear most from Washington. Then last week, after years of litigation and without any fanfare or warning, the twin legal dramas came suddenly...
Rolling down the runway, the little twin-engine jet looked like any rich man's weekend toy, but as it picked up speed over the California airstrip and began climbing, the craft underwent a bizarre and visually unsettling transformation. Its wing began slowly to swing around-its right half angling forward in the direction of flight, the left back...