A graduate of Georgia Tech's College of Architecture, Portman's work reshaped downtown Atlanta with his designs for the Atlanta Merchandise Mart, Peachtree Center, the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, and SunTrust Plaza.

An example of John Portman's work in Atlanta.

For example, the New York Marriott Marquis with its 8th-floor lobby once praised as a " town square ", is now criticized for turning its back to Times Square — but at the time the hotel was built, due to the still-seedy character of Times Square, Portman's style of inwardly-oriented spaces made logical sense.

On January 25, 2011, the film was nominated for a total of five Academy Awards ; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing and in March the film won one for Portman's performance.

By 11, she was taking trips to Boston by herself every weekend, where she discovered Julie Portman's Theatre Workshop.

Sir Alf Ramsey Way, formerly Portman's Walk, is a street in Ipswich that was named after Ramsey shortly after his death in honour of his achievements as Ipswich Town manager.

Nearby Portman's Walk was renamed Sir Alf Ramsey Way in 1999.

He was also introduced to Alex Laipeneiks, who had been a high school friend of Portman's younger brother.

Portman said: “ I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano ’ s comments that surfaced today ... I hope at the very least, these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful .” Not everyone in the fashion industry shared Portman's disgust.

Portman's design renewed attention to city architecture, constructing the world's tallest hotel at the time.

In March 1913, Váchal married Máša Pešulová, and began a friendship with the collector J. Portman ; Portman's house Portmoneum is now the Váchal Museum in Litomyšl.

A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1950, Portman's firm completed the Merchandise Mart in Downtown Atlanta in 1961.

The Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Portman's first atrium hotel, would lead to many more iconic hotels and multi-use complexes with atria, including the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles ( 1974 – 1976 ), the New York Marriott Marquis ( 1982 – 1985 ), and the Renaissance Center in Detroit ( first phase 1973-1977 ), whose central tower has remained the tallest hotel in the Western Hemisphere.

Natalie Portman's family also lived in Rzeszów.

Darren Aronofsky defended Portman's performance in Black Swan, stating that she had, in fact, performed a majority of her own dancing.

Reviews of Kunis's performance have been positive, with Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter stating, " Kunis makes a perfect alternate to Portman, equally as lithe and dark but a smirk of self-assurance in place of Portman's wide-eyed fearfulness.

In the 1994 film Léon: The Professional it can be seen when Natalie Portman's character, Mathilda, is traveling on it alone.

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In 2002, Byrne made her first appearance in a Hollywood film with a small role as Dormé, the handmaiden to Natalie Portman's Senator Padmé Amidala, in Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones.

The State of Ohio, showing the Second District. Detailed Map of Ohio's Second Congressional DistrictDays after President George W. Bush nominated Second District Congressman Rob Portman to be United States Trade Representative in March 2005, McEwen announced he would run for Portman's seat.

From this point on the group essentially became Portman's project, as he began a prolific period of songwriting.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

Their work was lonely.

With Ramey it was a dusty work shoe that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would always remember.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.

But his own work was evolving further.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

And I was to go to work on that odd matter.

It was part of Little Jack's work to look after the dogs.

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.