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...million to $400 million Texas-size office tower in the best premodern skyscraper tradition is proposed for Houston. It does not challenge the record height of Chicago's 1,450-ft. Sears Tower. But even as a scale model, it appears taller and prouder. Like the Chicago Tribune Tower and New York City's Chrysler Building, both more than a half-century old, it seems rooted in the ground and soars to heaven in a powerful rhythm, an evocative symbol of growth and success...
Gary Coleman and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The tiny dynamo of TV comedy and the towering inferno of the N.B.A. It was bound to happen. And so it does, early next month when the pair (mean height: 5 ft. 7 in.) team up, and down, for that milestone of broadcasting, the 100th episode of Coleman's NBC series, Diff'rent Strokes. Abdul-Jabbar, 35, guest-stars as a rigid substitute teacher against whom Coleman, 14, and the other students rebel. The plot, unfortunately, does not thicken...
Outwardly, Kenyatta does not fit most people's idea of a radical activist He is average height, a little heavy-set, and has an average-looking face. Like most men of his age, he is getting a hint of gray in his hair, carries a briefcase and has teenage children. He speaks in a calm, soft voice, even when discussing an issue about which he feels deeply, for instance, his decision to attend law school because of the law's importance to civil rights...
...wonder, then, that writers have taken such pains to portray the power of certain enemies, that power being a testament to their heroes' own. Milton gave Satan the height of a colossus in order to emphasize the magnificence of his opponent. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes near quavering when Professor Moriarty first filled his doorway: "My nerves are fairly proof, Watson, but I must confess to a start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely...
...Jerusalem Post called for Begin's resignation, likening him to Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis: "He refuses to recognize the reality around him. He denounces his critics for giving comfort to Israel's enemies and being driven solely by partisan political motives. Meanwhile, the outrage in the country multiplies, the divisiveness deepens, the moral authority of the government and its capacity to govern deteriorate...