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KENTLANDS, MD. "They don't make 'em like they used to" has become an all- purpose kvetch when confronted by the shoddy and the dreary. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a brilliant and relentless husband-and-wife team of architects and planners, are devoting their lives to convincing Americans that when it comes to neighborhoods and towns, they can make 'em like they used to. Kentlands, a new town in the suburban Maryland countryside outside Washington, is the couple's most ambitious project to get under way. Streets are narrow; houses are close to one another...
...giving the impression that such images are obsessive, a la Jasper Johns. This will lend an expectation of profundity to the series. Why profound? Because Salle, as everyone now knows, has discovered important metaphors of the meaningless overload of images in contemporary life. Thus his pictures enable critics to kvetch soulfully about the dissociation of signs and meanings, and to praise what all good little deconstructors would call their "refusal of authoritarian closure," meaning, roughly, that they don't mean anything in particular. It's as though those who bet on him can't bear to face the possibility that...
...admits I am a personal favorite. We keep everyone off the set, supposedly to maintain the illusion that I'm real but actually to maintain the illusion that I'm an illusion. This reporter from TIME (here it's a magazine, not a dental drill) called Tartikoff to kvetch about that, so he agreed to describe the set: "There are all these holes for the uh, er, puppet. Holes in the couch, holes in the bed, holes in the floor. Trapdoors everywhere. It looks like a family of gophers live there." Together, we've concocted this great cover story. Supposedly...
Thursday night, the council tried again. It held a public forum soliciting student opinion about recent council decisions, as well as suggestions on issues to tackle in the future. The council even made cute posters, featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog, with the slogan "Come Kvetch At Us." They bought Sprite, Fanta, Coke, Diet Coke, Tab, Ruffles, Pretzels, Doritos, Oreos, and even Blueberry Newtons, hoping to attract the hungry if no one else...
Titled "Come Kvetch At Us," the forum would have allowed students to meet their council representatives and offer their complaints and suggestions about issues the council should address...