Word: walle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost. "Every cheap architect could copy Mies," says Johnson. "He could go to the client and say, I can do a building cheaper than I did it for you last year, because now I have a religion. We have a flat roof and simple factory-made curtain walls. It was a justification for cheapness that took over our cityscapes, and that is what you see in New York today." The universal glass box, cut-rate Mies (for real Mies was real architecture, and too expensively finished for most developers to tolerate), would cover any function: airport, bank, office block, church...
...Government shares some of the blame for delay. "Like the Vatican," says Hazard, "federal agencies have a certain timeless interest." A Wall Street Journal editorial charged that in the IBM case the Government spent 5½ years in preparation and took three more years to present its case at trial...
...know what happened. All they know is that they've been wronged. So that's all they claim, and then they use discovery to build their case. If you don't have liberal discovery, justice could not be done. The plaintiffs face a blank wall...
...something else again. Every conceivable pun on the bird-word tern is illustrated, from tern of the screw to Comintern. A single-joke book, but a funny one, deserving of a big ternout. If the bird book rises from the dictionary, Hamburger Madness by Jack Ziegler bounces off the wall. The New Yorker's resident screwball, Ziegler is famous for muses that beckon the writer away from his work and toward a bar, and a bank with a sign that reads TIME: 4:32. TODAY'S WEATHER: SHOES...
...room darkened as the TV lights were switched off. People turned to chatting and eating. There were plates of hors d'oeuvres--mostly pork and shrimp--and drinks. Overhead were four painted lantern-covered light fixtures. On one wall was a mural of ethnic Chinese in native costume. Chairman Mao stood in the middle, fleshy and pink-faced in a gray collarless suit. Significantly, he towered over everyone else in the mural...