Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Park of Brooklyn, but restorations made by day were vandalized by night. Residents finally advised the city to stop adding amenities, such as bronze ornaments. "It would be like throwing them in the East River," a citizen warned. Rochdale Park in Queens won several awards because of its multilevel design; muggers also gave the project first prize, since it allowed them to prey on residents without being observed...
...other under the mattress, and instructed to remember their dreams so the Dalai Lama could interpret them during the ceremony. On the platform were two ever present reminders of tantric practice: a statue of Kay-Dor, a ferocious manifestation of the Buddha, and an elaborate mandala, a ritual design used in invocations, made out of ground precious stones and sand...
...catalogue, "Thanks be for the snobisme that broke through the barriers between the arts and gave us such a profusion of fine works!" As it is in Proust, snobbery is often the essential subject of art nouveau. There is plenty of costly jewelry made today; but what modern design by Bulgari or Tiffany does not look gross or commonplace beside a piece like Lalique's swan pendant of 1898? In those cool, exquisite loops and featherings of enamel one sees a vanished sensibility: distanced, calm, perfectly judged, and soon to be destroyed by the tensions of a new century...
Those precious originals he displayed on the runway beneath the chandeliers did not vanquish all critics. Halston, the monarch of American design, wondered, "Where will a woman wear...
Eastern's Borman believes that an equally serious problem is soaring operating costs, and he has proposed that they be attacked directly by a joint airline-industry effort to design a super-economical jetliner (with some variations) for the 1980s that could cut costs by as much as 50%. Such an aircraft, Borman contends, would eliminate "massive waste" caused by competing manufacturers' building essentially similar planes for identical markets...