Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gives green light to Holmes Trust plan to built modern mixed-use structure in Central Square. Say goodbye to charm...
Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience...
Over the past year, Walker's work has been widely exhibited at influential venues, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in New York at the Whitney Biennial. Last April at age 27, she was the youngest 1997 recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award. Walker's Harvard installation was originally presented at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, but here she takes full advantage of the Carpenter Center's lobby to surround viewers with a parade of figures under floating Spanish moss and cotton bolls...
Last night's decision gives Holmes Trust the authority to demolish much of the existing Central Square facade, replacing it with a modern residential and commercial structure...
...When you have two groups of people who have caught so much unnecessary hell under modern conditions, they tend to be a little paranoid," West said...