Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seductive and streamlined, painted with a pastel palette of flamingo pinks, pale yellows and cool blues, the tropical art deco buildings of Miami Beach delight the eye and invite the viewer to contemplate a jazzier age, a futuristic past. For years, preservationists fought developers who thought it necessary to demolish...
A Swan Lake that is set indoors. A ballet version of Henry James' Washington Square, featuring, among many other intrusions, cartoon black minstrels and cowboys. Not what one might at first expect from so historic an institution as the Paris Opera Ballet, but both items came along on the troupe...
A decade ago, Eurocommunism seemed an idea whose time had come. A new breed of Mediterranean Marxists preached a brand of Communism that renounced revolution, espoused democracy and rejected Soviet domination. Politicians of both the right and left fretted that Eurocommunism was about to transform the political scene. Western observers...
Mildred adds, "We went there to look at the historic things, the Liberty Bell and all."
"Well. Anyway. Those old places. We wanted to see them all in Boston, but we couldn't get to any of them. We drove around one whole day not finding anything until it got dark. Then we came to an old building that didn't have a real name. It...