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...loud, and inarticulate, Yankee partisans sitting behind me seemed able to get really excited only when they could combine a Red Sox nickname with an epithet, like "Pudge, you stiff." With the possible exceptions of Catfish Hunter, Thurman Munson, and for unfathomable reasons, Lou Piniella, the Yankee players (who seem by and large to lack nicknames) have not caught the fancy of the city. Like Jimmy Carter, the Yankees' support is a mile wide but maybe only an inch deep...
Aalto built widely in Finland and Scandinavia with a few structures elsewhere in Europe and the U.S. A total individualist, he broke away from stiff neo-classicism and stark Bauhaus, and ranks with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe as an architectural innovator. Unlike such men, however, he never issued architectural rules, attracted many disciples, or even handed down sculptural forms to copy. His work remains influential mainly for what are really moral reasons. " Architecture-the real thing," Aalto once said, "is only to be found when man stands in the center." All architects talk about...
...various nationalist groups, militant Zionists, assorted terrorists and some people who are not what they seem to be. The novel's plot is complicated, although not intricate. Canfield's arrogance and pride cause moral blind spots that bring about his downfall. Agnew's characters are stiff in the joints but serviceable. The settings -Washington, Iran, the interior of Air Force Two-are described with cursory authority, while Agnew's descriptions of beautiful women are done with lingering attention to detail...
...which was followed by coverage in suburban papers. Two weeks later, Meadow won the "Mr. Northern States" title in Dedham as a warm-up to the "Mr. Collegiate" contest. The next week, he traveled to Ohio where he faced 20 opponents for the "Mr. Collegiate" trophy. The competition was stiff as all contestants were required to have won an AAU district level contest in order to enter...
...Unless we put real stiff regulations on the university properties they can do just about anything they want with it, and that may mean high-rises," Saundra Graham, chairman of the Land Use Committee, said last night...