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Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is not even 33 years old, but it seems a relic of some distant age, when vast, impractical artistic hubris could persuade and triumph. Wright was a fabulous caricature of the genius artiste, difficult and grand, and so the Guggenheim was a caricature of 20th century genius architecture -- bizarre, ahistorical, antiurban. These days, there are still plenty of arrogant, solipsistic architects around, but self-confidence -- and talent -- on the scale of Wright's no longer exists...
...half year as a lawyer for Harvard, Connors has handled a variety of work, including many cases involving intellectual property law. He said his favorite case at Harvard was the Williams case, where he went to probate court in Key West, Florida to obtain the late play wright's papers for the Harvard Theater Collection. "People really gained intellectually from that," he said...
...Grubby." And many of the President's harshest critics in Rio will be fellow Americans. At the first day of the Open Speakers Forum, a meeting place for the 20,000 activists, scientists, spiritual leaders and other people on the periphery of the Earth Summit, environmentalist Sharon Rogers of Wright City, Mo., announced that she was circulating a petition in which the U.S. citizens at the conference would request an audience with Bush this week to plead with him to change America's stance. Said Rogers: "We cannot allow Bush to come here, wave a flag and then walk away...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Genevieve Christy (Manager); Patricia Hermes, Esther Cedeno, Morgan Krug, Katherine Young (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Carl Harmon, Sheila Charney, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu (Pictures...
...result: a multiplication of the value of the Perot land. And it was all made possible by a little ride in Perot's private helicopter with then-Speaker of the House Jim Wright, since ousted for ethical violations...