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Word: gazebo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like some misplaced country gazebo, a carrousel has gone up on the outhouse roof. Exclaims Kevin Walsh, the ironworkers' beefy crew chief: "It's gonna be like Coney Island out here. Lots of kids riding the horsies and pulling the golden ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City Coney Island On the Hudson | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...wanton English garden with piles of ivy and wisteria will add some majesty to the estate. Never mind that few climates in the U.S. could conceivably produce the soggy consolation that England provides its gardeners. What weather cannot provide, clutter can. So there is a thriving market in gazebo kits, stone dogs with baskets in their mouths, gates, bird feeders, Gothic porches and dovecotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise Found: America Returns to the Garden | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...TOURED the T.V. studio where the PTL Club is filmed. The other tourists gushed--starstruck over the baby blue carpet and the gazebo set where the gospel singers perform. They were awed by the barn-like room where the Heritage USA congregation prays on Sunday (presumably to the T.V. cameras dominating the middle of the room...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Plastic Armor of God | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...other end of the spectrum, postmodern sweetness still has baby-boom adherents. The cupola- topped shingle-style studio that Mark Simon designed for a Long Island beachfront is something of a contortionist folly: it jams all the moves of a mansion into a building the size of a gazebo. But in its earnest eagerness to please, the little building is more cute than contentious. John Syvertsen has envisioned a Wisconsin lake cottage as a kind of friendly folk pavilion: the tin chimney, latticework and exposed Y trusses satisfy the middle-class Arcadian ideal, while the broad stairs and hipped roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: An a List for the Baby Boom | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...jargon --adding exterior scenes--but the center of the action is still the kitchen of a batty old Victorian house belonging to the sisters' dying grandfather. The company bought a nondescript house on Southport's North Caswell Street and added $200,000 worth of Victorian folderol: two towers, a gazebo, a side porch, green shutters and purple-and-yellow stained-glass windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kitchen Comedy on Location | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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