Word: visione
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...basement bars. There is also a restaurant, a caf? and a picture gallery. But there is another reason to visit the club: Frantisek Skala, an eccentric Czech salvage artist, designed the club's labyrinthine interiors. A perfectionist who rarely exhibits, Skala spent five years outfitting Akropolis with his eclectic vision that examines the mystery in ordinary objects and spaces...
...Bush was dragged into supporting intelligence reform by John Kerry's imprudent campaign demand that the 9/11 commission recommendations be enacted immediately-without any input from, or negotiation with, the entrenched panjandrums of the intelligence community. "You can't do intelligence reform without a clear vision and direct marching orders from the President," 9/11 commission member Bob Kerrey told me last week. "If you create an Intelligence Czar, but the President doesn't want to back him fully and give him real authority to build the network, then you might as well deep-six the bill...
...happens, the President does have a clear vision about intelligence reform, and it may not include the bureaucratic reshuffling suggested by the 9/11 commission. Bush, as always, is more interested in action than information. He wants a more aggressive spy service-a good thing. But he also wants a more compliant spy service-not such a good thing. He has hired Porter Goss to achieve both goals at the CIA. He has also issued a series of memos that begin to lay out his vision: one supports a 50% increase in the number of covert operatives-an excellent idea. Another...
...bars. There is also a restaurant, a café and a picture gallery. But there is another reason to visit the club: Frantisek Skala, an eccentric Czech salvage artist, designed the club's labyrinthine interiors. A perfectionist who rarely exhibits, Skala spent five years outfitting Akropolis with his eclectic vision that examines the mystery in ordinary objects and spaces. The restaurant, with its aquamarine walls and two cases displaying Skala's fantastic mechanical constructions, has the feel of tropical-sea shallows. The downstairs performance hall's orange stucco walls sprout giant polypores and bear soft bas-reliefs of such things...
...These are the first steps toward the use of stem cells for saving existing vision and then—down the road—restoring vision that has already been lost,” Young announced in a press release last week...