Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally abandoned all attempts at stylistic harmony in his design for the New State Gallery in Stuttgart, which opened last year. The exquisitely proportioned classic entrance hall is assaulted by a bilious green Pirelli rubber floor covering and the gaudily painted steel frame of the elevator shaft. The circular interior courtyard, with sensuous marble nymphs basking in the glow of golden travertine and sandstone walls, is assaulted by vulgar pink and blue pipes that serve as handrails for a spiraling ramp...
...neon flourished for nearly two decades, especially as an accent for fantasies: movie houses, cocktail lounges, casinos. In the 1950s, when television took visual advertising from rooftops to the living room, neon began blinking out. It was left to a few dedicated preservationists around the country to salvage classic signs. A San Diego group rescued endangered examples like a 6,000- sq.-ft. marquee from a local drive-in theater. "They are cultural icons," says Lili Lakich, founder of the 3 1/2-year-old Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles, where 33 vintage signs are currently displayed. "They...
...depending on whether a family was in the 15%, 25% or 35% tax bracket. Barbara Kennelly, a Democratic Congresswoman from Connecticut, objected that though Reagan billed his reforms as "pro-family," the child-care, IRA and other provisions seemed tilted toward just one kind of family: the classic one in which only the husband works and the wife stays home and takes care of the children...
...late 19th century, Henry James no longer needs to cloak the intent of gossip. In What Maisie Knew he reports, "Everybody was always assuring everybody of something very shocking, and nobody would have been jolly if nobody had been outrageous." The Great Gatsby offers a classic instance of jazz-age chatter: " 'He's a bootlegger,' said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. 'One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last...
...these one-liners, and Actor Chase, whose funniest movie this is, has a way with them that is very ingratiating. He falls about a bit in his patented manner, but basically he keeps surprising ) with the competence that lies just beneath his disarming air of distractedness. In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. Incidentally, they add greatly to the movie's suspense. Every minute you expect the hero's loose lip to be turned into...