Word: architects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taught some fine lessons and a few dubious habits. The Ralph Laurenized marketing of snobby antiquity is a side effect the country could probably do without. Postmodernism has become popular along with the antique buildings that inspired it, which was fine until every second shopping-center architect became a second-rate postmodernist. Now, with historicism broadly popular, modernist architectural style is on the verge of a comeback -- but a modernism that has learned from old buildings about small scale, simplicity of construction and the pleasure of materials...
...relief. The main objective: avoid a 1988 recession at almost any cost. That means encouraging the Federal Reserve to pour money into the economy and reduce interest rates. But in doing so, the Administration has had to make a sacrifice, the U.S. dollar. Treasury Secretary James Baker, the chief architect of the plan, maintains that any additional attempt to prop up the dollar with relatively high interest rates could choke the economy and further devastate the stock market...
...landscape architect said he hoped the Quad project, tentatively scheduled for unveiling February 5th, would be more than a sculpture. It could be "a simple maze with a real passage way," said Van Valkenburgh. "I want to make a place for people to separate themselves from their preoccupations...
Dark Eyes tells the tale of Romano, a Don Juan who has lost both his wife and the only other woman he ever loved. A once promising architect who married well above his rank, Romano is now reduced to being a maitre d' at the restaurant on a QE 2-like boat. Who should walk in but a happily married man in search of a drink? The two get to talking, and the history of Romano's lost loves unfolds. And a rich tale it is indeed...
Huntington is not the only person who thinks such negotiations could forestall revolution or continued civil war. Dr. Dennis Worrall--main architect of the previously-mentioned proposals for the 1984 constitution, which followed Huntington's philosophy so closely--dramatically resigned from the ruling Nationalist Party early this year. Like Huntington, Worrall criticizes the pace of government-imposed reform, and calls for more concerted efforts at indaba-type negotiations. While no one knows quite where Worrall is heading, it's certain he is backed by a "reform constituency" looking very much like the coalition Huntington first suggested in 1981--including elements...