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...what you see in New York today." The universal glass box, cut-rate Mies (for real Mies was real architecture, and too expensively finished for most developers to tolerate), would cover any function: airport, bank, office block, church, club. It tended to be what the Germans labeled Stempelarchitektur, rubber-stamp building. Thus a debased form of Modernist dogmatism, what Charles Jencks called "the rationalization of taste into clichés based on statistical averages of style and theme," turned out to be the official style of the '50s and '60s. When repeated ad nauseam by architects all over...
...hemorrhoids are internal, away from the lower rectum's nerve endings, physicians often rely on a technique known as rubber-band ligation. A tiny rubber band is looped tightly around the swollen region. No longer drawing nourishing blood, the hemorrhoid withers away. Carter, plagued by hemorrhoids since college, had just such a procedure in 1974. Some doctors inject a special solution into nearby tissue that constricts the vessels and thus cuts off the blood supply. Still another technique involves dilating, or widening, the anus with stretching devices...
Derrick A. Bell, professor of Law, said yesterday that opponents of the former admissions policy believed the Med School's central committee had only served as a "rubber stamp" to the minority subcommittee's decisions...
...Belushi smooths out his vocal delivery a bit in "Almost," and Tom Scott of the L.A. Express handles the sax break as the rest of the horn section punches away. Next comes Aykroyd's only solo number, a wonderfully obscure bit of nonsensical babbling called "Rubber Biscuit" which is, believe it or not, quite faithful to the original version. Murphy takes the spotlight in the classic 12-bar "Shot Gun Blues," delivering some sizzling runs as Belushi moans, "I'm gonna take a shotgun, baby, disconnect my brain...
...Party by the retirement of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan." Did we expect Republican Rick Lazio to be the one candidate who could best fill that gap within the Democratic party? No. The Times' editorial board was not deciding between Lazio and Clinton at all, but was applying its solemn rubber stamp to a foregone partisan conclusion...