Word: attics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refrain from Stars and Stripes Forever. He is a whiff of a kinder age out of the attic. He is reassurance, a pat on the back, a little belief in every person's dream. He is a do-it-yourselfer in an era of easy cop-outs, a simple loyalist among the sophists, a gauzy visionary stumbling through computer printouts. He is comfort that things are not as bad as the experts say they are. Ronald Reagan is a mood that has seeped through the land like the beguiling scent of honeysuckle on a soft Georgia night. Millions have...
...Windsors' attic must be quite a sight. Consider only the old hats Prince Charles, 35, must have tossed up there. At one public moment or another, he has gamely donned a cowboy hat and an Indian headdress. Just returned from a four-day visit to the Commonwealth state of Papua New Guinea, Charles has of course acquired yet another item for his collection of ethnic headgear. Upon his arrival at the tropical island of Manus, Charles was officially named...
...reading touted as an important, powerful activity after dozens of films like Joysticks and Footloose touting the mindless. But, ironically, Bastian does not read the book curled up at home in front of the fire; he cuts a math test and spends the night in the school's attic reading by candlelight. Sure, reading and imagination are important--but they're not complete and absolute excuses for ignoring everything else...
Such exuberance is Arquitectonica's way of trying to make up for modern architecture's shortcomings in social purpose and aesthetic satisfaction. These faults have sent other architects to the attic for historic forms and ornaments. Arquitectonica is building on the spirit of daring and experiment that characterized the avant-garde earlier in this century. "We are not trying to create a new style," says Laurinda Spear, 33, one of the founding partners. "We are just trying to make modern architecture more lively and up to date...
...Barret Oliver, who's so weak he can't even screw the lid off a Welch's grape-jelly jar. Three bullies from school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then he goes up into the school attic and starts reading this book, and it sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people too. There's a flying dragon and a two-faced woman...