Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mere 16 years after the unholy fuss caused by the Armory Show. Americans, more than any other people, came to believe that art progresses, that its value to human consciousness lies in renovation, seen as therapeutic in itself. In the arts at present, this cherished belief is falling apart...
...Skybar in the Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles' latest shrine to the good life. At 10 o'clock on a weeknight, poolside is alive with people drinking and smoking and looking superb. Some are rich, but many more are having fun pretending. Five years after rioting tore this city apart, they are lounging on huge, posh communal beds, sipping their drinks, floating in the bubble of this long good run and wondering, some of them, when it will burst. They thought the crunch was coming when the market got rocked last month, but it didn't and it hasn...
...fact that times are not as good as we'd like them to be," he says. Sean Love, a 26-year-old movie post-production worker, couldn't agree more. He smiles. He knows what happens to bubbles when you touch them. His humble Toyota Corolla is outside, well apart from the BMWs and the Porsches parked in the dark beyond the twinkling trees...
...Gateway's public relations firm, New York City-based Hill & Knowlton, had begun preparing a press release. Waitt had even dispatched a courier to foreign offices to deliver the news to key executives. But ultimately Waitt couldn't sign on the dotted line. The deal appears to have fallen apart when Compaq started to project some corporate muscle, as in, "You work for us now." Waitt bristled at his executives' being treated as subordinates, not equals. Both Compaq and Gateway declined to comment. But a source close to Waitt says, "Anyone who really knows Ted Waitt knows that there...
Ironically, what sets Echo House apart from the hyperrealities of the usual Washington novel is precisely its air of ineffability. Beneath his bulletproof exterior Axel has a vulnerable emotional life. Why exactly does he carry a 50-year torch for a member of the French Resistance who gave him only unfriendly glances during the war? Were her youthful beauty and clarity of purpose an unshakable reminder of his own murky career as a political mechanic...