Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article on the Jersey Devil ((AMERICAN SCENE, April 27)), an irreverent group of designer-builders, asserts that the American Institute of Architects has a policy against architects' both designing and building projects. To avoid this alleged prohibition, the firm has chosen not to become licensed. This is an inaccurate representation of both A.I.A. policy and the licensing process. First, the A.I.A. does not license architects; state boards do. The A.I.A.'s position on any subject could not affect the Jersey Devil's ability to become licensed. Second, the Jersey Devil partners are in error when they assert that the A.I.A...
...sandy-haired, blue-eyed Ramey cuts a commanding figure onstage. Although shy in private life, he is physically fearless in front of an audience; the burst of acrobatic twisting, leaping and rolling with which Ramey depicts the devil's discomfiture at the end of Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele is one of the most breathtaking spectacles in contemporary opera performance. European companies clamor for his services; two summers ago, the Paris Opera staged a vivid production of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 19th century spectral curiosity, Robert le Diable, just...
...greater musical sophistication and adventurous repertoire. "Many singers make a career of doing the same operas over and over," he says. "But I am always looking for the unusual or the rarely performed works." The Paris Robert le Diable, the saga of a man who discovers he is a devil's son, was one such project. Another is Anton Rubinstein's obscure The Demon, whose title role was sung by the great Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin; Ramey hopes to perform the part someday...
When I saw your article about that merry gang of architect-builders, the Jersey Devil (AMERICAN SCENE, April 27), I was impressed. Imagine, a house shaped like a football! But there was no modest house in the shape of a coffee cup for a waitress or Ralph Kramden for a bus driver. Unfortunately, these renegade architects, for all their noble ideals, are merely creating playgrounds for the wealthy. Come on, build me, a simple workingman, a house that looks like a guitar or a fox terrier...
Call the houses designed by the Jersey Devil irreverent, call them expressionistic, but also call them ugly and ostentatious...