Word: walt
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...great public buildings of the early 21st century - Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhaas, Libeskind's own addition to the Denver Art Museum - all speak in some variation of this irregular vocabulary. Twentieth century Modernism produced many great buildings, but by the 1970s it was a formula for mediocrity. Ever since, architects - and the rest of us - have been looking for a way out. And Libeskind has been showing one way. He may have produced some argumentative buildings, but they happen to be making the arguments that need...
...This is NASA's first realistic simulator ride, developed over three years for $60 million as part of the agency's mission of sharing, along with commercial applications of space-driven research, the wonder of extra-terrestrial exploration and discovery. NASA contributed to the development of Walt Disney World's Mission:SPACE thrill ride which opened in 2003. But Mission:SPACE is very different, spinning riders in a centrifuge to expose guests to G-forces and a momentary feeling of weightlessness in what is supposed to be a futuristic trip to Mars...
...recent oped by Michael Schor (“Ignorance on Israel,” May 14) demonstrated true ignorance, and an unwillingness to analyze issues objectively. His willingness to pejoratively castigate academics (see Stephen Walt) who disagree with his point of view demonstrates a naiveté in intellectual argument. There are many legitimate reasons to disagree with the policies of the Israeli government, despite claims of it being an ally of “democracy.” The state of Israel is democratic insofar its Jewish citizenry...
...Naughty Satyr Dude, that satyr would lift its tail for anyone. Go find that naughty satyr and give it the reaming it demands. Then fall on your back in ecstasy/exhaustion, as Walt has done here. Dude...
...little further down JFK Street, the former academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Professor of International Affairs Stephen Walt has published a paper with a colleague at the University of Chicago that claims that there is an all-powerful Jewish lobby in the United States that sustains support for an immoral state of Israel. While the bias and shoddiness of the paper’s research have already been well documented, the actual message of the paper is even more troublesome...