Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Make no small plans," somebody once reasoned, "for they have no power to stir men's blood." Millard Fuller has always acted on that advice. He was worth a million dollars by his 29th birthday, but then decided to pursue a more ambitious goal: "the elimination of poverty housing in the world." If you want details, Fuller, a tireless and persuasive salesman, is more than excited to talk about his plans. They are large...
...structure, with a copper conical top. Equally heartening is the graceful design applied to a humble fertilizer and hay-bale storage shed for a garden center in Raleigh, N.C. Local architect Frank Harmon unapologetically used homely materials (plywood, corrugated fiber glass) but observed lucid symmetries. A row of birthday-candle-like light bollards stands outside, handsome and functional...
...couples move on to more sophisticated forms of contraception. He put birth-control "supermarkets" in bus terminals, offering Pills, IUDs and spermicidal foam as well as condoms. Mechai also opened vasectomy clinics across the country, including one in Bangkok's massage-parlor district. Each year on the King's birthday, the P.D.A. offers free vasectomies (normal price...
...number of these narratives have been reassembled for the first time this century, and they are a delight to see. The show is meant as a 75th birthday tribute to the redoubtable Sir John Pope-Hennessy, formerly chairman of the department of European painting at the Met and one of the great scholars of the Italian Renaissance. No doubt the Pope, as Hennessy is known, will be happy: when he was 23, he wrote his own book on the Sienese painter Giovanni di Paolo...
...TOWN. For its 50th birthday, Thornton Wilder's nostalgic masterpiece gets the gift of a robust, funny and faithful Broadway production...