Word: fe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Santa Fe, N. Mex., government buildings, businesses and houses are trimmed with farolitos, votive candles burning on a bed of sand in small paper bags, that offer a warming gleam against the dark. Olympia, Wash., launched a gaudy annual contraption called Christmas Island, assembled from Army pontoon bridges and anchored offshore with a forest of lights and a life-size Nativity scene. Denver's stately City and County Building is a blinking, electrified gingerbread house as multicolored as a jukebox. Not to be outdone, Austin sports a 165-ft.-tall, man-made metal tree shining out over a Santa...
...postmodern school is that architecture is not an instrument of social change; it reflects social change. If that is true, then the solar age may be on its way. In San Diego County, all new residences built after Jan. 1, 1980, must have solar hot-water heaters. In Santa Fe, solar-home builders Wayne and Susan Nichols estimate that a combination of air-lock entries, good insulation and solar heat radiating from a green house and rockbed system houses could reduce heating costs by up to 90%. When the town fathers of Soldiers Grove, Wis., voted to rebuild their often...
...16th year, Perry Como returns to television on Dec. 14 as host of his annual Christmas show. This year the singer, 67, celebrates "Christmas in New Mexico," aided by Greer Garson, a Como friend since Hollywood days. Garson, who now works a cattle ranch called Forked Lightning near Santa Fe with Husband Buddy Fogelson, welcomes Easterner Como to her adopted Southwest and recites the poem "Christmas Eve in Santa Fe...
...today wrest a living from the junk heap. In Mexico City, occupants of $250,000 houses in posh suburbs like Bosques de las Lomas daily witness scenes that evoke images from Dante's Inferno. Beneath a perpetual mushroom cloud of pollution rising from a huge garbage dump called Santa Fe, 1,000 pepenadores (those who pick things up) sift through a pile of rubble 1.6 miles long and hundreds of feet high for bones, paper, glass and other recyclable items. By selling this refuse to a trash king, the pepenadores can earn more than the daily minimum wage...
John Conklin's set (inspired by sketches by the late Rudolf Heinrich for Santa Fe's U.S. premiere of the shorter Lulu in 1963) captures the work's heartless, hypocritical milieu with a doorway here, a sofa or a plant there. All is gelid grays and greens except for the lurid red of Lulu's dress and wig. The stage is framed by two skeletal, metallic walls that recede almost to a vanishing point. In the final scene, when Lulu has ended up as a prostitute in a London attic, the walls suggest the street below...