Word: visione
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Furthermore, the Alabama-bred Davis has a particular kind of small town in mind--Southern, circa 1930, Edward Hopperesque--and he has assembled some remarkable architects to help realize the vision. Robert A.M. Stern is designing a beachfront hotel. Steven Holl will contribute a retail-office-and-apartment building. And Leon Krier, an influential architectural theorist who lives in London, plans to build a house for himself at Seaside next year--the first building of his quixotic career...
...child. A stranger exclaims, "What a lovely girl!" The mother replies, "That's nothing, you should see her picture!" Sometimes the actors who play villains in television soap operas have women come up and slap them in restaurants. The dreams become more intense than the moments of conscious vision...
Despite Weinberger's absence, Reagan no longer needs to listen to his Defense Secretary to know what is on his mind. He has great respect for Weinberger's opinions. Both men share a simplicity of vision untroubled by confusing nuance. That is not to say their vision is identical, however. Reagan persists in believing that the U.S. can have both arms reductions and SDI; Weinberger apparently cares less about a superpower deal than about Star Wars. Says Paul Warnke, Jimmy Carter's chief arms-control negotiator: "Essentially what Weinberger is urging is that we go it alone...
...long been Reagan's style to avoid cluttering his mind with the complexities of a subject. In many ways this contributes to the boldness of his vision, but his blurry collection of ideas and hearsay details can also present problems. In a presummit interview with the BBC, for example, Reagan remarked there was no Russian word for freedom. There is: svoboda. Similarly, Reagan seemed to tell five Soviet journalists that his nuclear defense project would not be deployed before all offensive nuclear missiles on both sides were dismantled. Spokesman Larry Speakes gently categorized the statement to the Washington Post...
...Bethesda, Md., involved 1,377 patients at 71 leading medical centers in such cities as Budapest, Kyoto and Cleveland. Each of the subjects had experienced either a minor stroke or warning signals known as transient ischemic attacks. Such attacks, which may result in dizzy spells, temporary loss of vision or speech, or numbness in a hand or limb, signal that arteries supplying various parts of the brain have become narrowed and a stroke may be imminent...