Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Condo conversion has distorted the real estate market in the city," said tenant lobbyist Michael Turk. "The pressure to sell the units came from the fact that the prior owner wanted to obtain market value for a building in a highly inflative speculative housing market...
Grandma (who we were, of course, going to visit) lives in a Condo Complex. Most Condo Complexes (and there are many) have similar features: swimming pools, shuffleboard courts, tennis courts, clubhouses, lots of old people, and lots of completely identical buildings to house the old people. They also generally have imposing walls and gates staffed by crack walkie-talkie-toting octogenarian security forces. Grandma assures me this is to provide protection from the hordes of degenerate muggers and rapists who swarm around South Florida after the sun sets...
David E.'s campaign flyers declare that "they'll do anything to get David E. Sullivan off the City Council," and blame David J's candidacy on "the big-time developers, the slum landlords, the patronage politicians, the fast-buck condo converters...
...design: distilling a complicated business into one simple symbol almost inevitably results in bland, meaningless abstraction. Vanderbyl's best occupy that ambiguous zone just this side of abstraction; although highly refined, they suggest serendipity and imperfection, the real world in other words. For a World War II shipyard turned condo development, a star of horizontal stripes is given a trompe l'oeil, waving-flag wrinkle. For a printing company, a triangle is composed of lithographic printer's dots that actually muddle and blur...
...noose tightened, Kesselman headed for Oahu. But by then marshals there were keeping watch on half a dozen likely hideouts. They lucked into someone who remembered seeing the 6-ft. 4-in. blond at the Aloha Towers condo near Waikiki. The marshals staked out the lobby and grabbed Kesselman when he stepped off an elevator with a couple of women. "He was very surprised," says Deputy Marshal Gary Shuler, who made the collar. "If it hadn't been for WANT, there's no question that this guy would still be out there...