Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different way. An abandoned turn-of-the-century beaux arts vaudeville hall, it has been transformed into a performance space (and folly) in which Avant- Garde Director Peter Brook could present his 9 1/2-hour epic, The Mahabharata. The firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates has implanted modern plumbing and electrical systems but otherwise has maintained the look of desuetude: chipped plaster and peeling paint, exposed beams and brickwork. The Piranesianism is a bit coy, maybe, but more affecting than much standard spic- and-span preservation...
...grow by about 8,000 new dues payers a day. One out of nine Americans belongs, paying a $5 annual fee. AARP offers drug and travel discounts, runs the nation's largest group-health- insura nce program and a credit union. In addition, its savvy media operation includes Modern Maturity, the nation's third highest circulation magazine; a wire service that provides newspapers with "unbiased reporting" on elderly issues; and a weekly television series...
...brokered convention, with party leaders wheeling and dealing through multiple ballots, may be the modern political equivalent of the unicorn: long sought but never actually sighted. A more plausible, though still unlikely scenario is for a period of confusion and bartering that begins midway through the primary season, when no candidate looks likely to garner a majority of delegates. That could open the way for a draft movement for someone now on the sidelines...
...Saturday night, round up a photographer to shoot a corpse, book a flight out of a city shut down by snow, arrange blood tests for a wedding, deliver 24 rolls of dental floss to a rock band at midnight -- with no questions asked. Welcome to the world of the modern-day hotel concierge -- part detective, travel agent, secretary and magician. In medieval Europe, concierges were simply doorkeepers. Today's concierges are polished executive servants who are called upon to fulfill a traveler's every whim, often even if it is outrageous or eccentric. In a field once dominated...
...doors to gentrify their old buildings. But Israel, 40, founder and president of a neat little business called the Great American Salvage Co., has made junk sorting obsolete. His firm, based in Montpelier, Vt., scouts the Eastern states for grand old homes, hotels, theaters and churches that are being modernized or are coming down completely. After negotiating a salvage contract with the buildings' owners, his band of gung-ho reclamation experts carefully removes architectural details. These are spiffed up and sold -- primarily to post-modern architects, cutting-edge decorators and well-heeled homeowners -- in the firm's huge showrooms...