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...blame--neither Pei nor Hancock is talking. But someone will have to pay the $7 million it will cost to replace the windows. The reflection glass, and the window company, Libby-Owens-Ford, could be at fault--the use of reflective mirror-like glass might have caused the heat stress that the BSA had originally warned the designers about. But as architectural supervisor for the building, Pei and Partners again can't be totally free from blame. And it is possible that Pei and Partners might have designed a building without the materials existing to make its concept work...
Though the stock market is supposed to mirror major trends in the U.S. economy, every experienced investor knows that the reflection is often distorted, to say the least. Rarely if ever, though, have the profits of major companies and the prices of their stocks gone off in such totally opposite directions as they did during...
...eats, food splashes over her chin . . . but that only means she's eating with more zest." He desperately tries to find in her crankiest non sequitur some shred of sanity or sense. He does his best to forget that she spends a good deal of time kissing the mirror and dangles the kitten he gave her by its tail...
...many newsmen, Griffith retains a large measure of idealism about journalism-"an exciting way to do good"-and he regrets that some people feel threatened or ill-served by the press. One of the problems lies in expectations. Journalism, and particularly television news, purports to be a reasonably accurate mirror of the world. Yet it is rarely that. Readers expect-and editors eagerly seek to provide-a full report on what is new and different from last week, yesterday, ten minutes ago. So journalism often shows "the world with all the banality, the ordinary, the uncontroversial and the unchanging left...
...being exploited, and kept flashing a curious dignity above the demeaning roles. But Welch was in on the cheat. Predatory, she'd wriggle up out of the water, reptilian and sleek, looking like she'd just been stamped out by a plastiglob toy set to jiggle from the rearview mirror. She seemed almost threatening, as though her super-tapered body slimmed down to huge hidden webbed fins at the extremities. In Musketeers she gets to exude a natural clumsiness--she steps into buckets and falls down stairs. The slapstick here works as it does for the rest of the film...