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Today almost every big-city downtown has new skyscrapers that endeavor to look like old skyscrapers. Almost every suburb has a shopping center decorated with phony arches, phony pediments, phony columns. Two decades after Venturi proposed, with the intellectual's standard perverse quasi-affection, that Vegas could be a beacon for the nation's architecture, his manifesto had transformed America. Forget the Bauhaus and your house -- it is the Vegas aesthetic, architecture as grandiose cartoon, that has become the American Establishment style. And so the splendidly pyramidal new Luxor and cubist new MGM Grand (both the work of local architect...
...other American cities learning to cope with multiethnic populations and new economic realities. "Miami today is a laboratory for the U.S. -- if not the Americas -- of a new kind of city in terms of international business and ethnicity," contends John Anderson, who serves as president of Miami's Beacon Council, an economic-development group. "Other large metropolitan areas will be dealing increasingly with the social and ethnic challenges we are dealing with today...
Even without historical monuments, Boston's neighborhoods are wonderful. I'm a big fan of both Central Square and Beacon Hill, although for different reasons. The Asian groceries in Chinatown remind me of home and Haymarket almost makes up for that nearby tourist atrocity, Faneuil Hall. And as much as I might miss really good Mexican food, the Indian food around here is terrific...
...concealment of maternal identity invites comparison with Caryl Churchill's contemporaneous Top Girls. But in contrast to Churchill's gritty political realism, My Mother Said I Never Should provides a tender and ultimately uplifting perspective on the experience of women in this century. No one who finds themselves on Beacon Hill with a few hours to spare has any excuse...
...Beacon Press...