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As architects began rediscovering the virtues of color and history and whimsy a decade ago, the buildings that resulted were often derided as cartoonish exercises in kitschy nostalgia. Disneyesque became a standard pejorative applied to the work of such post-Modernists as Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern. Now, rather...
Disneyites occupy a zany new Neoclassical corporate headquarters that Graves designed in Burbank, Calif. (the Seven Dwarfs, each cast 19 ft. tall in concrete, support the pediment). In December the first guests checked into Stern's two ersatz-turn-of-the-century hotels at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista...
Shortly after arriving at Disney in 1984, Eisner had his first working dinner with some of the company's executives and offhandedly suggested they build a hotel in the shape of Mickey Mouse. They were shocked -- and galvanized. But some of the Old Guard was not amused. Ground had already...
Is GEORGE BUSH recklessly rushing back into the swing of things? He slowed his % tempo dramatically after he was found to have Graves' disease, but the President, 67, has picked up the pace again, in part to head off any perception that his illness has dogged him. His doctors have...
But there are still plenty of graves to plunder and conspiracy theories to test. A team of scientists is planning to exhume the remains of Carl A. Weiss, the doctor who is believed to have assassinated Senator Huey Long of Louisiana back in 1935. Weiss was gunned down at the...