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... they made me what I am today. From Twain I learned about character and narrative structure. And humor. Poe didn't have a lot of that. But from Poe I learned about language. The beauty of Poe's language still shines–I defy anyone to find a story more perfect in rhythm, cadence, and sound, sentence by sentence, than 'The Tell-Tale Heart' ...
... The epicenter was 800 miles away...first felt a slight shaking, which grew into a swaying...This lasted close to a minute, a long time in an earthquake, I'm told...had sea legs and didn't fall down in the swaying. I'm a New York City subway rider, so I felt right at home in a bizarre sort of way...we found out how big and far away it had been...how devastating it was ...
... annual physical for...the cat..a cat carrier, a grocery cart, the chance of running into -- oh horrors -- dogs; it wasn't pretty. But...it was distracting. I did...laundry...took a bunch of things to the dry cleaner. And the tailor. And the shoemaker. And Housing Works, where I donate all my gently-worn clothes. (The heavily-worn ones I donate to my cleaning bucket.)... And my biggest victory: I bought AND INSTALLED a new toilet seat! ...It's just as you suspected. The writer's life, it's a life of the mind, focussed on the thrills and calm satisfactions of creativity, blithely uninvolved with the tainted, mundane concerns of the marketplace ...
As usual, Andrew Sullivan's argument contains a germ of truth; and as usual, Sullivan can't find it. The so-called...
Amid a general construction industry slowdown, one area that has not lost the momentum it picked up in the 1980s is the construction of correctional facilities. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency predicts that the number of inmates nationwide will reach two million by 1995...
When New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum reopens this spring, it will have been seven years since the start of a major addition and renovation project, and eleven years since the architectural firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates first became involved in what turned out to be...
In more than four decades of architectural practice, I.M. Pei has done it all: the impossible (an addition to the Louvre), the enormous (Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower), the sparely elegant (the Shinji Shumeikai Bell Tower in Japan), and the grand...
As 1990s edge us into the twenty-first century, architecture in America is an art in transition. Stylistically, technologically, and organizationally the next steps for architecture and for architects are unclear. International Style modernism, which was supposed to be a style to end all styles...
Architecture has gone through vast changes in the past quarter century, and the direction it will take as we inch up to the new millennium is not clear. Post-modernism and Deconstructivism are the most recent movements to have captured...
The architecture of Frank Gehry is the architecture of possibility. Created and nurtured in Southern California, America's Golden West where the sun never sets and everyone gets a second chance, Gehry's is an architecture that believes in the present and the future...
Sandstone, November 1986, Vol.75 No.11; pp 111-112
...It is important to recognize that deteriorated sandstone cannot be "repaired" and that although a sandstone building can be restored, restoration will always be at some cost to the original stone...
Testing Ground, Fall 1985, Vol.3 No.4, p 5
... Our primary task, as architects, is to keep all the balls in the air and develop solutions that simultaneously maximize considerations of function, esthetics, structure, cost, energy and the dozens of other issues that each design project, regardless of size, must embrace. It's hard enough when clients and critics insist on separating "design" from other architectural concerns, as though the integration of those concerns was not, itself, what design is. When we in the profession start to make those distinctions, we are beginning to lose sight of our central responsibilities and rewards.
To the Editor: Admiral Hyman Rickover (Op-Ed Jan. 30) is right: American society is poorly educated. Math and science capabilities are falling; literacy levels are...
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December 7, 2012
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