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...accumulation of signs can carry architecture only so far, because architecture in its root and essence is very much more than sign language. Yesterday's ironies wrap today's garbage. Architecture has to go deeper, find real human needs and deal with those. Foster likes to list them in simple terms: the structure that holds a building up; the services that let it work; "the ecology of the building--whether it is naturally ventilated, whether you can open the windows, the quality of light"; the mass or lightness of its materials; its relationship to the site, the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Norman Foster: Lifting The Spirit | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...give Joffe the benefit of the doubt: enough points to a very bitter, saddening satire behind the entertainment, particularly the film's wrap-up, which takes the idea of a know-it-all detective to one logical conclusion. A persistent dialogue between camera movements and angles also suggests more (and I'm not just talking about how every other scene starts with Arquette's legs and moves up). And Mulrooney's conflicted character gives us an occasional flash of honest hope: a P.R. exec in his brother's firm, he cannot stop wisecracking about the hypocrisy and yet, weak, himself...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back to Black | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Jonathan S. Paul '00, who is also a Crimson executive, was passing in an atypical fashion on his way from Currier House to The Wrap and Smoothie Joint when he became enraged at Lorentzen's comments. Stopping to argue, he interrupted the sage's street-side ramblings on the metaphysics of sedentariness with a thunderous outburst. "I'm sick of this stuff! 'Oooh, I'm too tired,'" he mocked. "'Oooh, my feet hurt!' We need some more gonzo shit!" the perturbed magazine man complained...

Author: By T.j. Kelleher, | Title: Four Dollars and Change | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...consciousness that it has become tremendously difficult for young designers to break through. It says something about the contemporary American fashion scene that one of the most publicized stories of the past few seasons is the re-emergence of Diane Von Furstenberg, who has come back offering the same wrap dress she unveiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: America's Next Wave | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...blend At a banquet, Mrs. Clinton donned an ahrouy, a type of robe, and tahrouyt, an ornate shawl. Chelsea wore a more modest shepherd's robe and head wrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road with Hillary and Chelsea | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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