Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theoretical essays and his few buildings (four houses in two decades) seemed pretentious and willfully opaque, caricatures of neomodernism. One Eisenman house had a column in the bedroom that precluded a bed, another a hole in the floor and a stairway that ran from the ceiling halfway down a wall. The architect used to say he would not dream of living in one of his houses ("Art and life are two different things...
...astronomers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics--Professor of Astronomy Margaret Geller and Professor of Astronomy John Huchra--recently announced their discovery of a "Great Wall" of galaxies numbering about...
Geller and Huchra, using a telescope and radio waves, determined that at 500 milion light years the Great Wall is over 5000 times larger than our own Milky Way galaxy...
...light years are the distance light travels in one Earth year, they are both a time and space reference and thus give clues as to the age of the "Great Wall...
...Junk Bond Fund Drive. Derek Bok could lead a group of aspiring student financiers to Wall Street with enough of Harvard's endowment to buy out the Trump Shuttle. After renaming it the Harvard Shuttle, and promising that it will run on time, they could build a runway behind Soldier's Field...