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Today almost every big-city downtown has new skyscrapers that endeavor to look like old skyscrapers. Almost every suburb has a shopping center decorated with phony arches, phony pediments, phony columns. Two decades after Venturi proposed, with the intellectual's standard perverse quasi-affection, that Vegas could be a beacon for the nation's architecture, his manifesto had transformed America. Forget the Bauhaus and your house -- it is the Vegas aesthetic, architecture as grandiose cartoon, that has become the American Establishment style. And so the splendidly pyramidal new Luxor and cubist new MGM Grand (both the work of local architect...
...being created in the '50s, Vegas' Strip was a mutant kind of American main drag, an absurdly overscaled Main Street for cars instead of people. Everywhere else in the country the shopping mall was replacing the traditional downtown. But now the Strip in Las Vegas has come full circle, its vacant stretches filling in with so many new hotels and casinos that what had been the ultimate expression of car culture has masses of tourists walking from Bally's to Caesars to Treasure Island, and from the Luxor to the Excalibur to the MGM Grand. The Strip is virtually...
...feeling that if the Harvard Police Department had its own version of the Academy Awards, you couldn't get a more distinguished guest list than turned up earlier this month for a petty larceny trial in downtown Cambridge...
...equality means a recognition of the androgynous ideal and a denial of gender stereotypes, or what Boyle calls, the "traditional' feminine roles." These stereotypes, the argument goes, have been artificially maintained specifically to keep women barefoot and pregnant, and especially to keep them from participating with the Big Boys downtown. By deconstructing the biases on which society has been built, feminists think they've finally enabled women to be liberated from the home--free to stay if they like, but nonetheless encouraged to spread their wings and fly off in triumph...
...telephones and mail service. All this is free, and people can stay as long as they want. Since opening last September, the $1.3 million-a-year facility, funded by government and private money, has produced immediate benefits for the community. "Petty crime has dropped about 40% to 50% downtown," says Michael Poole, head of the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida. "There's cost savings in police time and prison beds." Dade County commissioners are so impressed that they aim to open three similar facilities with grant money and funds collected from the 1 cents tax they recently levied...