Word: modelled
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...that seeks to transplant cypresses from one soil to another (as Hearst did in San Simeon) or to display the rarest species. (After seeing Lionel Rothschild's Japanese garden in London, the Japanese Ambassador was said to remark: "We have nothing like this in Japan.") Versailles, the model of gardening for so many big spenders, must have had Eden as its model, as a place at once disciplined and open-ended. That is the way the rich would have nature: apparently free yet under the thumb. They would have their animals the same way, which is why they...
Complaints of vandalism and rowdiness marred an otherwise successful model United Nations convention this weekend at the Park Plaza in Boston...
...show more conspicuously relevant to the present. Without such allusions, the apt timing of the exhibit looks like just a fortunate accident, an artistic coincidence--not a conscious design. More than simply betraying the spirit of Dada in straitjacketing its works, the ICA's presentation is a model of how museums function more as mausoleums than as regenerative forces that revive the art of the past to engage contemporary audiences...
Vandalism and excessive noise also troubled the Model United Nations when it was held at the Sheraton-Boston. Several students said delegates lit fires and threw bottles and toilet paper inside the hotel during the 1979 convention...
Richard J. DiNatale '82, secretary-general of the Model U.N., said that the Model U.N. did not move to the Park Plaza because of incidents at the Sheraton. "We have a good rapport with Sheraton," DeNatale said, adding, "The Park Plaza just offered us a better deal...