Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business firms, banks and factories in Iran. The foundation controls 96 such enterprises; the rest are either fully or partly owned by the Shah's relatives. Among other properties, these holdings comprise industrial complexes, office buildings, sports clubs, mining firms, entire villages, warehouses, interests in foreign companies, vast tracks of real estate, and import and export facilities. Whatever may be done about those, probably beyond Khomeini's reach is the array of the Shah's and his family's palatial retreats in London, Switzerland, New York City and France, not to say an island...
...plays his most sophisticated games when he reflects on the production of artificially intelligent beings. Indeed, God himself is considered as a vast cybernetic mind that may be the legacy of a first-generation universe that died billions of aeons ago. The machines of this universe were the laws of nature, a perfect solution to the problems of spare parts and maintenance. As for the problems of an unnatural nature, Lem writes that "if one considers 'artificial' to be that which is shaped by an active Intelligence, then the entire Universe that surrounds us is already artificial. " With...
...begin a search for the oracle that, he is told, will tell him how to end the drought. It seems cornballed at first, simple adventurism, but Updike is never simple. Through Ellello*u. Updike sings an elegy to the open spaces he seems to have just now found: the vast blue sky of Africa, and the rolling plains of the 1950s America in which both Ellellou and Updike attended college. This makes the most beautiful part of the book, striking in its images and complex in its construction; Updike interweaves flashback and narrative to force a sad comparison between...
...theater in Naples in 1927. He went on to create a strong, light blend of mortar and steel mesh called ferrocemento and, by casting major structural pieces at construction sites, managed to mold concrete into soaring, tilted buttresses and high, swooping ceilings. His finest buildings, critics agree, are the vast Exhibition Hall in Turin, Rome's sunburst-domed Palazzetto dello Sport and the oystershell-shaped, ribbed-concrete Pope Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican. In the U.S., his works include San Francisco Cathedral and New York City's George Washington Bridge Bus Station. Modest and hardworking, Nervi...
...pasteboard parable that West contrives. John Spada. an Italian American, runs his multinational conglomerate in the style of a medieval prince, but he is also, in the best potboiler parlance, "a man living a double life." When not wheeling and dealing, he heads Proteus, an apparently vast and clandestine club that liberates political prisoners. Proteus prefers handing out carrots to achieve its ends, but will use the stick when other means fail. Spada's crusade becomes a vendetta when his daughter and her Argentine husband are arrested in Buenos Aires and brutalized by security police. He manages to rescue...