Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Badanes, his itinerant opera-singing girlfriend Donna Walter, and their dog Floyd Bite (after Frank Lloyd Wright). But if a tacky trailer in an expensive Colonial suburb seems a little out of place to you, consider what Badanes and his three colleagues, architect-builders who call themselves the Jersey Devil, were constructing on the same lot: a multimillion-dollar house that's shaped like an overgrown hero sandwich...
Badanes clearly enjoys the joke. In fact, such irreverence is his group's trademark. Born at Princeton University during the counterculture days of the 1960s, the Jersey Devil is a traveling band of renegade architects who rejected standard careers to design the really far out and then, in an even more radical break with modern architectural practice, get out the saws, hammers and nails and build these unusual structures themselves. Since their first project, a child's play structure built to resemble an enormous cockroach, they've painstakingly assembled twelve houses, from San Francisco to New Hampshire, parking tents, trailers...
...electric shock just from touching a door handle, in a city so charged with energy that the very air tingled with it?" Certainly not in drab, dreary, bombed-out London. And there are some unaccustomed small inaccuracies that further tarnish the golden glow: the PATH commuter trains from New Jersey are not officially part of the city subway system, and Van Cortlandt Park is in the Bronx, more than six miles north of Harlem...
...interested in improving and widening the role of local governments--I'm not sure what means would be most effective," said Samuels. He has been active in local campaigns in his home state of New Jersey since...
...chosen up to that point. "Everyone in the race will be out of money," Mahe predicts, "fatigued, with fatigued staffs, fatigued messages." So there could be an opening for a classy contender -- Howard Baker or (if Bush collapses) James Baker on the Republican side, Cuomo or someone like New Jersey's Senator Bill Bradley on the Democratic side -- to ride in from the sidelines on a fresh white horse. The most fanciful scenario of all has the Democrats packing for Atlanta or the Republicans for New Orleans lacking a contender who commands close to 50%. That could mean an open...