Word: airs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...changed the way people think about architecture. In a characteristically exuberant 1997 article that brought him national attention, he likened Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to Marilyn Monroe. (The building had a "voluptuous style" and an apparent urge to "let its dress fly up in the air.") Muschamp was 59 and had lung cancer...
...real hog jumper? Bud Ekins, the go-to stuntman of his era. Ekins' later credits included doubling for McQueen again in a famous car chase through San Francisco in the 1968 thriller Bullitt and overseeing stunts for the '70s TV show CHiPs. He was 77. His exploits as an Air Force pilot in the Pacific during World War II included 219 combat missions; he counted among his myriad awards an honorary title from the Queen of England. But Major General John (Jock) Henebry was best known as a member of the Grim Reapers, an élite group who mastered...
Kicking woes aside, Harvard played its most complete game of the season last weekend at Cornell. If it struggles to establish its ground game early against the rugged Leopards front, it may force Chris Pizzotti to the air, which isn’t a bad thing. Home field gives it to the Crimson...
...Latter Day Saints movement that has fewer than 2,000 members nationally. Contrast that to the 130,000 self-identified Wiccans in the U.S. in 2001, according to a poll conducted by the City University of New York. The Pentagon has recognized over 1,500 Wiccans in the Air Force, 354 in the Marines, and although numbers aren’t available for the Army or Navy, it is estimated that there are over 4,000 Wiccans in uniform. But Wiccans are not allowed military chaplains, and practitioners are generally frowned on by the military...
...University President Drew G. Faust’s inauguration on Friday, a symbol that may warm Harvard’s historically icy relations with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). At the request of Harvard cadets, Faust agreed to allow seven students from the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force to lead the closing procession in Harvard Yard in a flag-bearing ceremony known as a color guard. In June, Faust and then-Interim President Derek C. Bok drew fire from The Wall Street Journal for not attending the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony. Both Faust and Bok said they were...