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...edition of 5,000 simply lay there. But Pinckney, a rebel of long standing, refused to give up. A ninth-generation descendant of a founding family of South Carolina, Barbara Biffinger Pfeiffer Pinckney of Savannah was born with a silver spoon in her mouth; she was also born needing steel braces on her legs for seven years to correct badly turned-in feet and a spinal deformity. "Restless and bored" with the schools and rules that came with her heritage, she eventually quit college and at 21 left the U.S. for what became eleven years in Europe, Africa and Asia...
...sublime rather than plain or mean. The pavilion in Barcelona was the apotheosis of posh Miesian austerity: slender chrome-plated columns, travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world to a new kind of architecture--even more extraordinary. It was intended by the German government to clean up the country's image internationally...
Mies, meanwhile, was taking the logic of the empty architectural box to its unnatural extreme in the U.S. His campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology is a grove of steel ectoskeletons, essentially giant one-room buildings. The Farnsworth House (1951), a planar H-beam box floating over a floodplain outside Chicago, was Mies' last modest building, and the most affectingly American one. (Alas, his project for an Indiana fast-food stand never got built.) Farnsworth looks like a house, just barely. After it came almost nothing but true Miesian "universal space": high-rises, modeled on his twin apartment slabs...
...gained all the trappings of a large-scale military operation. Security forces sealed off the township borders, army troops were stationed on every access road, and armed forces patrolled the township's streets. Overhead, police and army helicopters hovered protectively. At the approaches to neighboring white suburbs, truckloads of steel-helmeted troops stood at the ready...
...second after booster ignition, just as the shuttle began to lift, first a white and then a black puff of smoke gushed from a joint between two of the 149-ft. rocket's four segments. At 59.8 seconds, high in the sky, flame burst through the booster's steel casing, apparently at the same aft joint. In another 13 seconds, the external tank that fueled the orbiter's three main engines exploded in a catastrophic, fatal fireball...