Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Locked away in downtown Rio's Praça Mauá jail, Firmenich now awaits formal extradition proceedings that would return him to the country where, during the 1970s, his crimes helped to create a decade of bloody turmoil and an eventual military dictatorship...
...proceeding as smoothly or swiftly as it did following Brezhnev's death. Then it had taken only 52 hours for Andropov to emerge as the Central Committee's choice for General Secretary of the Communist Party. But newsmen watching the streets around the huge Central Committee building in downtown Moscow on Saturday afternoon saw no sign of unusual activity. If the Central Committee, which must elect the new Party leader, was not even meeting, what drama might be unfolding behind the Kremlin's walls? "Our feeling is that they are horse trading," suggested a U.S. diplomat in Moscow. "Someone will...
Like all living organisms, cities are constantly changing. One American city that seems to manage technological and economic change without sacrificing its essential character is Boston. Its residents have kept their new downtown, with its forthright and boldly sculptural city hall, the Faneuil Hall festival market and converted granite warehouses along the waterfront, as Bostonian as Bunker Hill. Now they are managing to control drastic changes in the famed Back Bay neighborhood. The latest and most dramatic case in point is Copley Place, a $500 million shopping, office and hotel complex that opens this week. The development might have been...
...Beaux-Arts temples were usually built to stand apart from the city's commercial bustle. The first modern museum to break the pattern was, appropriately enough, New York City's Museum of Modern Art, which in 1939 built its first new home in the heart of downtown. While the old museums featured formal, skylit rooms, MOMA presented its art on open, loftlike floors that could be partitioned or rearranged like stage sets. MOMA, now topped by Architect Cesar Pelli's 52-story, income-producing condominium tower, remains a handsomely modest structure. It was followed, however...
...absurdly defiant extreme. His Dallas museum, on the other hand, is a joy precisely because at a time of architectural razzle-dazzle, it is so endearingly simple. It is thoughtfully and beautifully designed architecture in the service of art. Covering nearly nine acres at the foot of Dallas' downtown skyscrapers, the museum consists of a low composition of geometric forms, dominated by an imposing 40-ft-high barrel vault. The entire building is of limestone, cut in huge blocks and coursed with deep V cuts...