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...Modern-Day Evangel...
...also supremely funny on the subject of S.L. (Roxy) Rothafel, creator of superabundant picture palaces along Broadway, those Moorish-boorish Odeons, who was the man chosen to guide development of Radio City Music Hall. Once he was in the job, fate teamed Roxy with Deskey--Donald Deskey, the great evangel of Art Deco who had won a competition to design the Music Hall. Dedicated to all things Moderne, Deskey is the man who saved us from Rothafel's stated dream for the Music Hall: "Portuguese Rococo...
Even so, for anyone who thinks architecture took a wrong turn after the Empire State Building, it was Mies who pointed the way. In the U.S., where he arrived in 1937, he was chief evangel of the new right-angled religion. Before Mies, the Chrysler Building, with its scalloped pinnacle and chrome gargoyles. After Mies, lots of no-nonsense boxes. If "God is in the details," as he liked to say, his details could still be few and far between...
...CHRIS EVANGEL (D) District 11 (North--Morris County...
...Evangel, a nonpolitician with consistently liberal leanings, supports increased federal employment-training grants, incentives for teenage mothers to stay in school, tax breaks for companies that train laid-off workers, and increased funding for environmental programs. But he will have to run a strong race in order to beat Frelinghuysen...