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Viewing all the pomp and folks from elegant circumstances, no less a Reagan partisan that Senator Barry Goldwater growled "ostentatious." He objected to such a public display of wealth "at a time when most people can't hack it." Marcia Carter, a Republican civic leader from Houston, agreed. Said she: "The thing that offended me most was the great extravagance at a time when we're supposed to be cutting the budget and showing restraint on all unnecessary frills." Robert Michel, the new Republican minority leader in the House, complained: "At these prices, only those of a certain...
...artist half her age. It was her big year. In its wake, some 20 of her giant steel sculptures-scaled up from Nevelson's maquettes by the Lippincott works in North Haven, Conn., a foundry the size of a shipyard-are under construction for various corporate and civic bodies. She held a show of her wood constructions and collages at Wildenstein last spring, and throughout the summer a selection of her major "environmental" sculptures from the '50s and '60s-arrays and assemblies of separate pieces, meant to confront the viewer with whole surrounding families of shape...
...supporter of Los Angeles' mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat and a black. Says Smith's law partner Paul Ziffren, a Democrat active in civil libertarian causes: "Smith has a strong and pure sense of noblesse oblige." Smith's second wife Jean is also heavily engaged in civic affairs; the attorney has four grown children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce. Smith is a fastidiously groomed, buttoned-down Establishment figure, but his establishment is open to practically anyone with ability and motivation. That attitude should serve him well in Washington...
...four councilors endorsed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) are pledged to support Cambridge's rent control program. The fifth vote on the nine-member council in favor of rent control has been cast over the years by Alfred E. Vellucci, an independent councilor from East Cambridge...
Pittsburgh has experienced a renaissance over the last ten years. A series of major city block renovations, new civic centers and shopping complexes, parks, theaters, and restaurants have capped a program all aimed at drawing people back into the city. So far it's been successful; young working couples no longer flee to the suburbs, they rent fashionable brownstone apartments in the Shadyside quarter or buy and restore one of many beautiful but dilapidated "Pittsburgh style" houses, built on a grand scale around the turn of the century...