Word: datedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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DC: Not that I know of. I think it's because I come from the art world, where all aspects of culture are valid as source material. When [Generation] X came out, for example, everyone thought 'oh, it's just going to become dated.' And I think what happens is...
So when Mobil Travel Guide subtracted one of the five stars from the Bel-Air's rating in 1999, Lopes knew a face-lift to the "dated and tired" design was imperative. He would have to nip and tuck carefully to avoid rankling the hotel's faithful. "I had to...
When Carlos Lopes, the managing director of the Hotel Bel-Air, asked a breakfasting guest early last year what he thought of the renovations to the suite he was occupying, the guest replied, "Well, it's not my personal taste." Fortunately for an unnerved Lopes, the man eventually added, [an...
The 1960s and 1970s may be the only decades in human history—at Harvard, anyway—where ugly buildings were somehow desirable. All over campus, starkly geometric concrete slabs were erected like tombstones, housing students and offices, and raising the ire of those who prefer serene beauty...
But in the letter, which is dated last Monday, Kirby wrote that the online method “gave students more time for considered responses, and the very high participation rate has convinced the College to move the CUE fully online.”