Word: landmarking
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Boston's newest and most expensive landmark, the ill-fated John Hancock building in Copley Square, may soon reach the end of its ordeal...
...SMOOTHLY, it finally did. For all the ladies' talk that followed, you'd think that King's victory was going down in history as a landmark of the Liberation, as epoch-making as the day of Ibsen's Nora's doorslam, or the day that tanks succeeded cavalry. But after all the fuss, the match wasn't much. It wasn't much...
...year was 1939, and the fledgling attorney was Richard Nixon. Not long ago, a group of La Habra citizens concluded that the site of that transaction ought to be preserved, so they collected some money, titled themselves Nixon Law Office Preservation, Inc., and applied to the California Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee to have the building designated a historic landmark...
...exactly six hours and ten minutes one day last week, Associate Justice William O. Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the American bombing of Cambodia. That was not quite long enough to stop the actual bombing, of course. Nor was Douglas' action much of a legal landmark, since it was overturned later the same day by one of his colleagues, with the backing of the other members of the Supreme Court. Nonetheless, it was the latest and certainly the oddest of a growing number of battles between the Nixon Administration and both the Legislative and Judicial Branches...
Weese, 58, is a natural landmark man. He loves cities, he bicycles to work, not so much to get the exercise as to feel Chicago's texture. Characteristically, he installed his office in an old warehouse with a greenery-filled atrium and a glass-roofed elevator-"so you can look at the clouds." His own designs, from Washington's Arena Stage theater to the U.S. embassy in Ghana, are similarly lyric, and they always respect their architectural context. In his Walton Apartments in Chicago, for example, he used bay windows to echo those used by the city...