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After the Pompidou became a hit with tourists, Piano might have been expected to go on to a career-length succession of wild and crazy schemes. But lurking within him was a closet classicist. That became obvious in 1987 with the opening of his Menil Collection in Houston--another startling building, but this one startling in its simplicity. A subdued, low-rise museum, the Menil is a machine for delivering light, which it coaxes indoors in just the right amounts through an ingenious roof system of louvers...
...group was founded in 1972.“When I was in college, I knew no other gay people. I went through all of college...waiting for someone to show up, but everyone was in hiding,” he said. “Everybody was deeply in the closet.” Mack said that meeting other gay classmates at this weekend’s conference and his 25th reunion had been “healing” experiences because he realized being in the closet had been “the common experience for most people...
...solution is to teach risk management integrated with education in macroeconomic issues, corporate culture and human factors, says Mitchell, and to make sure that more of those lessons reach more people within every company. "It used to be that risk management was off in some backwater or some broom closet in the company," Mitchell says. "We all think of ourselves as risk managers...
...cool to watch reality TV shows. It's one thing to convey your erudition by dissecting a dark plot in The Sopranos, but what does it reveal to cop to a fascination with Donald Trump's boardroom or worse, Ryan and Tristan's love affair on The Bachelorette? For closet reality TV fans, it may finally be safe to come out of the closet. On Sunday, Sept. 21, for the first time the Emmys will award a statue to the best host of a reality TV show. To top that off, the event itself will be hosted by the five...
...frame pound against the wall, knowing it could break free and smash into the windows, forced us to retreat. I'm hiding in the kitchen behind sheets of plywood my father attached to the bar. My parents are sleeping here on the floor. Ian, my husband, is guarding the closet, behind more plywood, which separates us from the floor-to-ceiling windows that run the length of the apartment. It's been a frightening night...