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...architecture, so he made sure that the home picked up qualities of the area's cultural heritage, from its antebellum porches to the curves of silos. And in keeping with the studio's philosophy of building with local and inexpensive materials, the students scavenged for supplies, gathering bales of hay for the walls and sheets of acrylic for the roof. "When they started on the house, I told people that the cows would eat up my house," Alberta Bryant jokes, recalling her nervousness about having her home constructed from stuccoed-over livestock fodder. Yet six years later, the building...
...future liabilities, and the defined-benefit approach has rapidly been replaced by the defined-contribution plan: employer and/or employee contributes X dollars, fund trustees invest it, and investment performance determines the payout. It's great in an up market, but, says Michael F. Carter, a benefits specialist with the Hay Group, a worldwide human-resources consultancy, "we're beginning to enter what I call the worry period." Older boomers, he says, are right to wonder "what happens if there's a correction in the stock market and it falls off 20%" without swiftly bouncing back...
Thankfully, many of the grislier sequences in Shooting War are interspersed with gentler scenes: a young girl handing a G.I. a daisy, French peasants pitching hay even in a bomb-ravaged countryside, Thanksgiving turkeys being air-dropped to U.S. soldiers in the Far East. But these reprieves are brief: unlike the relentlessly pro-Allied cinematic morale boosters made by Ford and others at the time, Shooting War also shows an Australian infantryman using a flamethrower on a screaming Japanese soldier in Borneo, as well as Japanese orphans shaking uncontrollably from radiation sickness after the U.S. dropped the atom bomb...
...addition, Harvard will attempt to master a new slate of teams, since its Odeneal Division title qualifies the Crimson for the Hay Division. With two decisive wins this season over Queens, a perennial Hay powerhouse, Harvard demonstrated that there is reason for optimism next season...
ROBERT HUGHES, TIME's art critic, will be presented with the London Sunday Times Writer of the Year award June 4 at Britain's Hay-on-Wye literary festival. An announcement in the Times said Hughes was selected for changing "the way we think about art, history and culture." Hughes has written such provocative books as The Shock of the New and The Fatal Shore and has made more than 25 TV documentaries on the visual arts. Following a near fatal car crash in Australia last year, Hughes is back in full swing for TIME and is in the final...