Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What more seductive place to locate a story about love and other disasters? The city has its irresistible charms: 18th century architecture, a dashing 19th century history and old families that have been likened to the ancient Chinese because they eat rice, drink tea and worship their ancestors. Minutes away are the Sea Islands, where the area's oversupply of physicians and lawyers spend languorous weekends gunking around in their Boston Whalers, sipping beer and picking crab...
CATHERINE THE GREAT: TREASURES OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA: Memphis Cook Convention Center, Memphis. Almost 300 items from the era of the 18th century Czarina, including court costumes, an embroidered war tent, bejeweled snuff boxes, saintly icons and a newly restored gilded coronation carriage. Through Sept...
...seems incredible that such a simple, even obvious premise -- that America's 18th and 19th century towns remain marvelous models for creating new suburbs -- had been neglected for half a century. Yet until Duany and Plater- Zyberk came along, even envisioning a practical alternative to dreary cookie-cutter suburbs had become almost impossible...
...discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...must content oneself with his equally crude versions of less sexually loaded images. The New York Times, rarely in doubt about Salle's virtues, hailed the new works as "Rococo," presumably because they are all pale, some have harlequins, and one of them recycles a bit of 18th century decor -- figures in a Roman landscape beside the Pyramid of Cestius. Such is the history of style...