Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this highly wrought architectural scribbling and juxtapositioning? Why, in a single glimpse, is there brick, tinted glass, clear glass, white glass, white metal panels, white steel, white stone, concrete and red stone? Because to pull off such an improbable collage is a virtuoso feat -- Eisenman is like a chess master playing several games at once while standing on his head. Because the dense, dense eclecticism of material and form prevents the place from seeming too slick and self-serious. And - because Eisenman remains rather perverse. The four painting and sculpture galleries, for instance, amorphous and oddly shaped, could tend...
...much in return for the country's postwar rehabilitation they acquiesce even when the Americans are unreasonable. I think it's time for Japan to move away from this slave mentality. Japan is the only country that is developing practical uses of superconductivity and, I believe, will master the technology in ten years. Then Japan will be at the center of industry. Japan must repel any attempt by the U.S. to prevent it from becoming more self-assertive...
Leverett Assistant House Master Judith F. Dowling said students had complained that service was disrupted in McKinlock residences as well...
Proposition 1-2-3's failure was so overwhelming that joking rumors abounded this week that 1-2-3 was really part of a CCA master plan to sweep the election...
Caro began work on his Texas-size biography of L.B.J. 14 years ago. The choice of subject was a natural progression from his first marathon, The Power Broker (1974), a 1,200-page study of New York City master builder Robert Moses. The Power Broker is an obligatory book for understanding modern urban politics. In turning to L.B.J., Caro shifted his focus from how New York City works to what makes the nation run. The answer is not surprising. As Franklin Roosevelt's factotum Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran responded when Caro asked how the young L.B.J. gained power, "Money...