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Improving the Design Quality of Federal Buildings, NRC, Committee on Improving the Design Quality of Federal Buildings, Building Research Board (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1989).
Besides honoring Dylan, the academy also gave John Fogerty his first Grammy this year.
One well-meaning critic called it the best Grisham movie since The Firm . This is sad: Francis Ford Coppola, the director of The Godfather , The Godfather Part II , The Conversation , Rumble Fish , and Apocalypse Now and the winner of five Academy Awards, is being praised for making the second-best John Grisham movie.
Watching this sequence, I thought of the late David Niven, who, during the 1974 Academy Awards ceremony, saw a streaker charge across the stage and brought the house down with an ad-lib about the fellow "showing off his shortcomings."
In principle, there is nothing tackier about an award given by the National Association of Right-Wing Radio Blowhards than one given by the Swedish Royal Academy.