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...other side of Fort Lauderdale, in a loft on U.S. Highway 1, volunteers in blue Kennedy T shirts were also working at a bank of phones, trying to line up blocs of voters-from elderly residents of condominiums to youthful opponents of nuclear power. The volunteers are fired up with a sense of mission. Said Salesman John Adams: "The whole world is watching. We have a chance to bring big change in the country, right from this county...
...Diamonstein, author of a handsome book by the same name (Harper & Row; $10) and herself a pioneer in the movement. Says Diamonstein, a former White House aide and a charter member of the New York Landmarks Conservancy: "Adaptive re-use [of old buildings] is moving from erratic initiative, a loft here, a firehouse there, to become a superb planning tool. It's no longer just a question of restoring a mansard roof or a neoclassic colonnade but of looking at entire neighborhoods and districts. Now I look for us to move from buildings reborn to communities reborn...
...meet via a video dating service. It is not love at first sight. Alex is a middle-aged classical music fan who is still under the thumb of his large, oppressively patriarchal Greek family. Sheila is younger, a rock singer, and lives with ambisexual fellow band members in a loft commune. When Sheila explains to Alex that her loft is located in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, he replies, "All those neighborhoods look alike to me." Such is the tenor of the movie's repartee...
When he is wrongly suspected of murder, he hides from the police in a loft across the street from his own mansion...
...best seen from afar," he says. "One of the finest scenes in the world is Lower Manhattan beheld from the Staten Island ferry in early morning, when even ghastly buildings like those of the World Trade Center look good." Hughes lives happily in a 2,300-sq.-ft. loft-his "plywood palazzo"-but, when pressed, he picks the man to design his dream house: New York's Richard Meier, whose work he analyzes in this week's story. And Hughes would have Cover Subject Philip Johnson whip up a "gazebo-cum-study...