Word: interior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mothers came together in mutual sorrow and desperation. They became friends while spending long nights in the Plaza de Mayo hoping to be one of 10 people each day "permitted" to request information from the Interior Minstry about their missing children. They never got the news they sought. They still know nothing, other than what is obvious after nine years, that their children are dead (though even this they have trouble accepting). In a society in which the family is a sacred institution (opposing divorce is translated as "defending the family") and women still define themselves in terms of their...
Come next spring, major exterior renovations will begin, potentially followed by interior renovations, said Sally Zeckhauser, president of HRE. The exterior renovations include repairing the roof, completely cleaning the sandstone and brick walls, and repairing the stained-glass, she said...
...this issue, Mitterrand's chosen weapon last week was the guest list for his annual Bastille Day garden party, held in the Elysee Palace. Mitterrand invited two young Algerian immigrants living in Lyons who had conducted a hunger strike to protest the hard line on law and order. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua was so angered at the President's gesture of support for those protesting the government's legislation that he refused to attend the affair...
...most significant architect was an apostate from the older generation. Otto Wagner was, surely, the world's first great modernist. The MOMA show includes a fine display of his masterpiece, the steel-and-glass interior of the Postal Savings Bank (1904-06). It was an architectural space exuberantly of its age, right on the boundary between the classicized past and the industrialized future...
...better shows in the central pavilion also take up the theme of technology, science and art. "The Representation of Space" has some painstaking reconstructions of spatial illusion in Renaissance and baroque art; its best moment (which will be the envy of all red-blooded interior decorators) is a full-size wooden replica of Borromini's false-perspective colonnade, made in the 17th century for the Palazzo Spada in Rome. The second exhibition, "Wunderkammer," is a delight. Wunderkammern--literally, chambers of astonishment--were an embellishment of European collections from the 16th century onward. They were anthologies of real and artificial oddities...