"Boredom was the one thing Philip Johnson would not suffer," Lamster tells us.
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Lamster deals extensively with Johnson's horrendous infatuation with the Nazis in the 1930s, a ghastly chapter that was well documented in Franz Schulze's 1994 biography and that Lamster fleshes out with a few more details, which do not redound to his subject's benefit.
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This, via Jeffcoat's reference to Charles Sr. as "the lamster," gives the episode its title.
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"I inquired about his background and learned that he had a conviction, and subsequently paid his debt," Lamster added.
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"Lamster," the penultimate episode of this season of "Billions," sure does seem to have taken Chuck's credo to heart as its own.
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If as a young man he possessed what Lamster calls an "extravagant hauteur," he was too full of enthusiasm to be merely a cynic.
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"I was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein in late 2011 (as best as I recall) by one of my faculty members, who was his dentist," Lamster told BuzzFeed News by email.
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Lamster, former dean of the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, told Reuters in 2015 that he accepted about $100,000 from Epstein to research whether dentists could help in the early diagnosis of diabetes.
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"I frankly thought I would have trouble convincing the authorities there to let me take pictures, but in fact they were tremendously excited to have the attention and were incredibly gracious and supportive," Lamster explained.
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But Lamster helps us understand the weakness of that explanation as he shows how Johnson returned to the United States and supported many other characters whose politics were almost as despicable, among them Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin.
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Lamster says his architecture is really all about the idea of the void, which seems a bit too easy, a bit too close to saying he was trying to fill an internal emptiness, which on some level is the case for everyone.
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Mark Lamster, the architecture critic for the Dallas Morning News and a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture, was drawn to this incredible feat of engineering, the second largest such plant in the United States, in the context of the island's overlooked history.
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Lamster served as the director of the Division of Periodontology at Columbia University from 1988 to 1998 and as vice dean of the institution from 1998 to 2001. In December 2001, he was also named vice president of the Columbia University Medical Center. Lamster has authored over 150 research papers and textbook chapters.Google Books Author Ira B. Lamster He is also board certified by the American Board of Oral Medicine.
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Ira B. Lamster, dean emeritus of Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. Ira B. Lamster is an American board certified periodontist. He is a professor of health and policy management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Formerly, he was the dean and professor of dentistry at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine until stepping down the end of the 2012 school year.
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Mark Lamster, "Modernism under threat in Texas and beyond," The Dallas Morning News, Archives, 2014. Accessed April 12, 2019.Ben Koush, "Housey-House," Texas Architect, January/February 2019. Accessed April 12, 2019.
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Together with Drs. Murray Schwartz and James Burke Fine, he co-authored Clinical Guide to Periodontics.Clinical Guide to Periodontics In March 2012, Lamster announced that he would be stepping down from his position as dean of Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, effective at the end of the 2012 school year.Columbia News Lamster Stepping Down, March 1, 2012 He moved to the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he serves the function of a facilitator and thinking counselor.
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Mark Lamster called it "a tour-de-force of reflective glass block." The Glassell School of Art opened to the public on January 13, 1979. It was replaced by a new building, designed by Steven Holl Architects in 2014.
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Mark Lamster (born in New York City) is an American architecture writer and critic. He writes in the Dallas Morning News. In 2018 he wrote an biography, The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, showing the Nazi past of Philip Johnson.
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Frequent contributors over the years have included; Steven Heller, John Foster, Adrian Shaughnessy, Dmitri Siegel, Alice Twemlow, Tom Vanderbilt, Lorraine Wild, Rob Walker, Alexandra Lange, Mark Lamster, John Thackara, Véronique Vienne, Julie Lasky and more. In 2016, Design Observer and AIGA joined forces to work in collaboration as a larger online platform for design.
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He is best known for the public buildings and houses he designed and co-designed in Houston, notably the Rice Museum (known locally as the "Art Barn") at Rice UniversityMark Lamster, "Modernism under threat in Texas and beyond," The Dallas Morning News, Archives, 2014. Accessed April 12, 2019. and the Alfred C. Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Art Houston"The MFAH: An Architectural History," Museum of Fine Arts Houston, About MFAH. Accessed April 12, 2019.
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Accessed April 12, 2019.Molly Glentzer and Heather Alexander, [ "Rice University to demolish historic art 'Barn,'"] Houston Chronicle, March 5, 2014. Accessed April 12, 2019.Mark Lamster, "Modernism under threat in Texas and beyond," The Dallas Morning News, Archives, 2014. Accessed April 12, 2019. Barnstone and Aubry also built several notable houses: the Maher (1964),"The Maher House," Houston Mod, Buildings. Accessed April 16, 2019. Bell (1969) and Kempner (1969) in Houston, and the Levin in Galveston (1969), among others.
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" However, the museum also attracted critics, who said it was not ambitious enough. Mark Lamster, architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News, wrote: "With its almost impossibly smooth walls and squared columns of titanium-treated concrete, Piano's front facade evinces a clinical, stoic perfectionism.... Altogether, the assembly is a minor miracle of construction. Most impressive are the beams: 100-foot-long bars of laminated Douglas fir, trucked from Canada. But for all its technical mastery, it offers none of the elemental majesty of Kahn's building across the lawn.
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Levinson began her career with a short period in architectural practice before moving into architectural journalism. She has published in a wide range of media, both professional and scholarly, including the Journal of Planning Literature, Yale Journal of Architecture, I.D., Metropolis, Landscape Architecture, The Christian Science Monitor, and Architectural Record, for which she was a contributing editor. She has also edited books for the Princeton Architectural Press and contributed chapters to Architecture and Film, edited by Mark Lamster, and Judging Architectural Value. Levinson also spent a period as ‘editor in the archives’ at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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Luke Skywalker is first seen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope living with his adoptive parents in a "complex of caves and domed structures" on Tatooine, filmed in the Tunisian desert town of Matmata.Mark Lamster Architecture and film Wretched Hives: George Lucas and the Ambivalent Architecture of Star Wars page 234 The end of the first movie was shot in the Guatemalan rain forest where a celebration with rebel allies takes place in a caved area (a scene said to be borrowed from Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will). The exotic locales provide scenery that is unfamiliar to "all but a few experts in non-western architecture", providing the films with fantastic settings that could still be believable.
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