Word: deco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...segregate girls and boys into separate schools or even separate buildings. In fact, only about 105 of Marina's 810 students are separated so far; the rest attend typical coed classes. Michaelson started the single-sex experiment by setting aside two rooms within the hulking blue-and-white Art Deco edifice--one for 30 seventh-grade boys and one for 30 seventh-grade girls. While boys and girls in these single-sex "academies" spent most of the day apart, they mixed during one or two elective periods and socialized during lunch. "This way the kids get the best of both...
...purveyors of what he accurately calls hooey in Sedona, Ariz. For the refried Spanish architecture mandatory in the tonier quarter of Santa Fe, N.M., he borrows a glorious slur from an exasperated architect that the regional hothead Edward Abbey could have said more noisily but not better: Taco Deco...
Versace lived directly on busy Ocean Drive, a 15-block strip of Art Deco hotels and sidewalk cafes facing the oceanfront. He didn't even like the mansion's security videocameras to be recording. In the Versace household, everybody had regular routines that would be easy for a killer to know. One of those routines was Versace's morning walk to the News Cafe, four blocks from his home, to buy magazines and a coffee...
...software, users have been able to watch real-time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink and Keaton's The Boat, a different one airing about every six weeks. Despite its small, 2-in. by 2.5-in. viewing window (elegantly set within a virtual Art Deco theater), the site's array of low-tech physical humor and grainy black-and-white images has garnered more than 100,000 hits from over 70 countries in just two months...
Miami is the fourth poorest city in the U.S., mainly because anybody with any money has long since moved out of town. Miami Beach, a separate municipality, has most of the area's prime beaches and luxury resorts, as well as the hip, Art Deco district of South Beach. Outside a thin necklace of fancy hotels, parks and wealthy enclaves lining the waterfront, Miami comprises largely the kind of inner-city neighborhoods that never make it into the tourist brochures. Middle-class flight--first of whites and now of Cubans--has made Miami increasingly a city of struggling, often illegal...