Word: worthless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, do a building that's eco-responsible but aesthetically worthless. The crux of Foster's achievement is to have designed megastructures that are at the forefront of eco-design as well as beautiful in their own right. He is a fine detailer--everything from the junctures of a beam to the cladding to the door handles comes out of the same relentless aesthetic concentration. But on the wider scale, Foster is also one of the great living manipulators of light and transparency. No other government building in the world, for instance, can boast anything as outright exhilarating...
...doesn't blast Net managers for spending recklessly or building without an eye toward making money. The now-stale-but-ever-prevalent knock against the e-companies goes like this: Sure, all well and good, but talk to me when they can make money, if ever. These businesses are worthless until they can make a profit...
...Hollywood wanted of her. "The only thing I achieved going to the States was that I became an exotic beauty," she says. "I did my best to give a version of Chinese-ness that the West was looking for. But I also understood that that version of me was worthless. I wanted to do something more serious." Clearly, Chen's striking beauty--searchlight eyes, long, strong neck and, it must be said, the most luscious mouth on either side of the Pacific--is merely the wrapping for surpassing talent and drive. Hollywood's favorite China doll wanted to direct...
...Justice Department. It arrived just about the time the INS was arresting those illegals trying to fly out of Phoenix. Pisa's hope is that a Government Accounting Office report due out in June will recommend that the airlines be forced to scan tickets, thereby rendering stolen ticket stock worthless. For some travel agents, that will be a little too late...
...whose beloved wooden table, bought for $25 in 1965, turned out to be a John Seymour masterpiece that eventually fetched close to $500,000 at a Sotheby's auction. Or the Houston man who learned that although his oil painting of the Titanic, purchased in England decades ago, was worthless, the menu pasted on the back was an original from a last meal on the ship, worth close to $100,000. (It had been owned by the son of a surviving crew member. The doomed dined on grilled mutton chops...