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Floor by floor, the Forum is as eventful as a totem pole. To satisfy zoning regulations that require upper stories to be set back to admit sunlight to the street, most architects provide a stair-step silhouette. Abraham produced a diagonal slope with angular overhangs, like teeth on a harpoon. His upper stories simultaneously thrust upward and avalanche down. Below that, the director's office is housed in a glass box that juts from the zinc facade...
Though Abraham hates the illusionistic flourishes of postmodernism, the Forum's thunderbolt profile can't help suggesting an Alpine fir tree or maybe the mountain slopes he knew in his youth as a champion skier. Even he compares the building to a guillotine blade--not a bad image for a building that has cut through Manhattan's architectural doldrums. For four decades, developers have crammed the skyline with featureless boxes or high-rise gimmicks like Philip Johnson's Chippendale-top Sony headquarters. Now the city faces its most important urban-design decision in years: what to put where the World...
...band beats lawsuit filed by puppetmakers who claimed singers had misappropriated identity of artificial, sawdust-filled characters CLINT EASTWOOD Aging actor named to California Parks Commission. First order of business: cut him in half so tourists can count the rings Losers ZHU RONGJI Chinese Premier red-faced over economic forum snafus. To-do list for next Boao summit: fewer boring heads of state, more beer bongs MARLON BRANDO Godfather hit with big palimony suit by his maid. Who else is a guy who lives on his own private South Pacific island going to fool around with? HELEN CLARK Kiwi...
...from me to sully the frivolity that I’ve spent an entire academic year creating in this, my hallowed column space. Conversations about Cornel or the plight of Af-Am at Harvard are reserved for a more earnest forum. No, when talking about race-based issues in the twenty-first century, I can’t help but rant about something a bit less important, a bit more…well, glam...
...undergraduate groups involved in the diversity coalition include: the Black Students Association (BSA), Black Men’s Forum (BMF), Association of Black Harvard Women, Asian American Association, RAZA, Bisexual Gay Lesbian and Transgender Student Alliance (BGLTSA), Girlspot, Diversity and Distinction and the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...