Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actually a sculpture by Realist Mags Harries. It is only one of a scattering of Harries' bronzes-a stuffed shopping bag abandoned by a phone booth, a half-eaten lunch left on a bollard-that grace Chelsea, Mass., a town attuned to a movement that hopes to make cities more livable. The driving force of this operation is a national organization called Partners for Livable Places...
...current budget is $1.3 million. Roughly 30% of it comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, which gave birth to the organization, the rest from membership dues and donations from corporations and foundations. "Partners," says Ronald Lee Fleming, 40, head of the design firm involved in the Chelsea innovations, "is changing the spirit of city planning in America...
...each to sponsor a series of eyecatching manhole covers that have been turned into relief maps for pedestrians. In Washington, D.C., the vacated Lansburgh's department store is beginning to serve as an arts center that is changing dingy Seventh Street into a kind of Soho. And in Chelsea, site of those lifelike bronze sculptures, large photo panels of local citizens have been put up near the renewed main street, producing the effect of a giant family album for public browsers...
...blue-uniformed doorkeepers are called "court officers," but their duties are nebulous. They do, however, have salaries, more than $18,000 annually-nearly as much as the legislators themselves. A few are former representatives, and many more are friends and relatives of lawmakers. Claims Representative Richard Voke of Chelsea: "No one got there other than by knowing someone. Can you imagine," he asks, "stuffing the payroll at a time like this...
...real, in good-natured stride. The pressure has been rather more trying for his girl friends. A few years ago, for example, Lady Jane Wellesley, a self-assured brunet, was discovered to have spent a weekend at one of the royal residences. The press descended en masse on the Chelsea travel agency where she worked. "Get rid of them and don't come back at all if you can't," warned her angry boss. Said a relative afterward: "It was as if she had been found guilty of some ghastly sexual crime or murder or robbery...