Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wendy's, founded in Columbus only a decade ago, is a highly successful upstart. Its distinctive outlets, with their Gay Nineties decor, have been popping up all over the country. Last year alone Wendy's opened 502 units, bringing the total to 1,400. One result: the company's earnings surged 56%, to $23.2 million, on sales of $783 million. Even so, analysts say, average sales advances in Wendy's shops have slowed in recent months, and they expect that deceleration to continue. Still, Wendy's intends to stick with its limited line of hamburgers...
Some of the minimal work in the Biennial, like Brice Marden's wax-encaustic panels, is beautifully made, but the craftsmanship is placed at the service of no discernible idea; it is art's answer to the well-made play, a kind of systematic decor-though (mercifully perhaps) with out the metaphysical pretensions of its ancestor, Barnett Newman's work. More likable are the folded tracing-paper drawings by Dorothea Rockburne, with their spare geometry of arc and line appearing through superimposed translucencies of paper−the product, if not of passionate invention, at least of rigorously...
...short streets still show the mildly abraded middle-class homes of the past 90 years. The one long block of South Hudson Street still shows black hovels in what seems permanently frozen collapse. No sign of pork-barrel public works or decor (beyond merciful provision for human excretion), no Carter statues yet, no rumors of veiled Saudi peanut takeovers. And any conversation with a longtime resident is likely to reveal that, under some genuine annoyance with the present, the spiritual structures of the past are standing, for better or worse, and straining to survive till Jimmy is a private citizen...
...really a stage set. The Piazza d'ltalia fountain in New Orleans was commissioned as a celebratory space for the local Italian community. Moore dismissed all thought of "unitary" Tuscan directness and produced a razzmatazz design, a caprice resembling the gaudy, papier-mâché fair sets of Sicilian festa decor: fragments of Roman and Renaissance buildings around an 80-ft.-long stone map of Italy, like the masterpiece of a megalomaniac pastry cook. A fountain spurts out of Moore's Sicily, and its water runs down in rivulets representing the Po, the Arno and the Tiber...
...retained much of its original decor after the move to Mt. Auburn St., however, and remained a favorite of students and even a few faculty members...