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...firm, mixes soft-colored blobs and a bright red bar. Chicago's Tigerman, known for his theatrical home designs, created "Sunshine," in which bold colors interplay with a cartoon-cute pink angel. The elegant and evocative "Majestic," by Stern, a professor of architecture at Columbia University, combines art deco gilt ornament with a ruby-red rim. Meier's "Professor" barware employs etched lattices that suggest both Louis Tiffany and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; the motif is echoed on a dramatic silver bowl mysteriously titled "King Richard...
...stage by an enraged mob shouting "Kill the Jew." The lights go up to reveal an exquisite set, half of which is an elaborate nightclub (owned by Shylock, the program says), complete with bar and black-and-white checkered dance floor. The other half is Portia's plush, art-deco apartment. When the Keezers-clad cast breezes in, singing a hearty rendition of "Happy Days are Here Again," we are firmly placed in the '20s, when, we are to assume, everybody wore tuxedos...
...manners is very ersatz and copied, very nostalgic for something they've gotten from old movies, from some hopeful rumor of a more distinguished period in which to live," says Hamilton. "They're just dressing up. They all love suspenders, art deco, fragments of an earlier grandeur, and that's the new conservatism. Reagan isn't the cause but just another symptom of the urge to find some order...
...comes up with such different ideas, that the course is really impressive and challenging." Off campus, the professor is an accomplished painter and an admirer of surrealist art. He lives with his wife and two children in a late 19th century Cambridge house, decorated with modern Italian art deco-style furniture. Tribe supports the good life with his $70,000 Harvard salary plus substantial earnings from his private law practice. His fees for cases vary, but can go as high as "hundreds" of dollars an hour. He will not say what he is charging for his work on the Moon...
...version of an early Italian Renaissance landscape, complete with a dragon quoted from Uccello, the audience was saturated in color: deep purples of the night sky, the green and pink of formal gardens in Sarastro's domain on the yellow Nilotic sands, blue cataracts and blazing gold art deco sunbursts...