Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps partly because of Madame Yvonne's allure, Locke-Ober remains a favorite haunt for pseudo-sophisticates caught in a time warp between prehistoric and modern Boston, between the 18th century void and the glittering array of gastronomical alternatives now twinkling throughout the city...
Quincy and Currier draw many of their benefits from their large common spaces in their modern buildings. Both the houses have large active grill areas that are typically seething with students spending money at the grill on video machines or soda...
...spoken of the responsibility that Big Business has to help the urban poor. "I just feel that sometimes, not too often, I can throw a rock into a pond and watch the ripples create a certain amount of discussion." Charles threw a rock through the plate-glass window of modern architecture last year when he decried the sterility of much contemporary British design. In a speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects, he castigated a proposed steel- and-glass addition to the National Gallery as "a monstrous carbuncle on the * face of a much-loved and elegant friend...
...royalty, the English economist and journalist Walter Bagehot wrote, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Charles and Diana have allowed the shutters to be opened just a crack. To spread them any further would spoil the illusion. To be modern, yet keep the mystique--that is the trick. It is a trick that Charles and Diana have gracefully mastered...
...critics call the "garbage play." The protesters argued that staging the play, whose main character is an unscrupulous real estate speculator identified as "A., the Rich Jew," will revive anti-Jewish feelings in the country. Director Gunther Ruhle insisted that Fassbinder, a * well-known moviemaker, only intended to criticize modern anti-Semitism. Such purposes may seem elusive in a play in which one character says of the protagonist, "They forgot to gas him." The demonstrators, backed by 500 cheering supporters outside the theater, vowed that they would return again and again to make sure that Garbage, which has been blocked...