Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like New York's Macy's and Chicago's Marshall Fields, "Hudson's Downtown," the flagship store of a midwestern chain--was an American merchandising phenomenon. Based in such a grungy city, Hudson's never received the national acclaim accorded to its counterparts in New York and Chicago: But it was--and it meant--more. A weekly trip to Hudson's was virtually mandatory in Detroit's golden years. The store sported 14 floors and more than 500,000 separate items; it operated four restaurants which served up to 13,000 meals a day. Nothing anywhere else could compare. Perhaps...
Warnecke, based in San Francisco, had won national acclaim for his ability to design buildings that do not flaunt their modernity but get along well with older neighbors, notably two office buildings opposite the White House whose brick facades effectively echo the residential accents of surrounding Lafayette Square...
...came parcel post, wrapped in bright holiday paper and crowned with a bow the size of a best-acting award. She has, in short, never had to pant after a part and rarely received so much as an unkind word from a reviewer. What she has experienced is the acclaim of the London critics, and after her new play, David Hare's Plenty, opened off-Broadway in October, almost embarrassingly ecstatic reviews in New York as well...
...become exotic indeed, as in "the -p convention," which consists of adding the letter p to a word to denote a predicate. Thus "Food-p?" means "Are you hungry?" Or "State of the world-p?" might elicit a literal "Yes, the world is O.K.," but the hackers acclaim a nonsense reply: "Yes, the world has a state." The classic pun involves a hacker who wanted to know whether a neighbor would like to share a bowl of soup big enough to feed two and asked, "Split-p soup...
Design is no luxury. At a time of lagging U.S. productivity, a dangerous imbalance of trade and a deteriorating living environment, good design is nothing less than a matter of survival. The tendency in 1982 to acclaim buildings, not because they solved urgent urban problems but because they carried the signature of currently fashionable design celebrities like Michael Graves or Charles Moore, was a trend in the wrong direction...