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During the 1980s Spring Street, like so many other neglected, down-and-dirty streets around the country, is shuddering back to life, becoming a gleaming circa-1920s boulevard. Many of its handsomely scaled old masonry buildings were renovated: derelict art moderne office buildings became cool art moderne apartment buildings, and the art deco stock exchange was reborn as an art deco disco. There were more than two dozen major restorations in all -- including what had been the CRA's office building. The CRA, as it happened, had helped foster this revival. So in 1980 back came the urban-planning bureaucrats...
There is some mild satire poking fun at the British upper class, circa 1937. These twits are the sort whose servants laugh at them behind their backs. For them, propriety and gentility are all-important. Strong emotions are not allowed to upset the teacart. Jack describes his love for Kitty--"Well, this is the real thing. Marriage and all that."--as if it were a minor inconvenience. These characters have such stiff upper lips that they cannot kiss...
...junior friend didn't approve of the kleptomanic approach and came to Registration prepared. Forewarned of the University's new policy, he had prepared a label with his "birthdate", circa 1966, which he brought with him to the general i.d. making session. After he substituted the new label, Harvard did the rest...
...scene of the bloodiest battle in American history. What does it look like? How does it feel to be in the middle of unimaginable carnage? Safire disposes of such questions in two perfunctory sentences. Then he gets to the important part, a detailed exposition of how photographs are made, circa 1862: "He coated a sheet of glass with collodion, the guncotton dissolved in alcohol and sulphuric ether mixed with a little bromide and iodide of potassium they had compounded the night before...
...Pink and blue for a baseball team? Whatever happened to good old gray?"--TV Commercial, circa...