Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Walt Disney Co.'s $34 million restoration of the New Amsterdam theater. Originally built in 1903 and famously taken over by Florenz Ziegfeld 10 years later, it is, after its refurbishment, one of the grandest and most mind-bendingly ornate theaters in America, an eclectic melange of Art Nouveau and other turn-of-the-century ornamentation and a triumph of the restorer's art. Disney is hoping the New Amsterdam will be an economic triumph too, as home to a lucrative stream of wildly successful Disney stage shows. First up, in May, is a concert version of King David...
...many of those 1930s comedies. You know the old drill: rich boy meets poor girl (or vice versa), the disparities in their backgrounds--the very thing that first attracted them--sunders their romance until, defying convention, they get together at last. But in modern America, where the rich--nouveau spendthrifts aside--are careful not to act rich, and the poor think they're middle class, and therefore have no hesitation about aspiring above their stations, this plot doesn't work anymore. Instead, we have items like The Mirror Has Two Faces, where the thing keeping Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges...
Late in the 19th century, Thomas Carnegie, brother of Andrew, was snubbed as too nouveau riche by the ultra-snobby club on nearby Jekyll Island. So he bought the southern end of Cumberland and built several mansions. One of them, Greyfield, was turned into an inn by some of Carnegie's descendants. Oliver and Mary Jo Ferguson, the husband and wife who operate Greyfield, are old friends of the Kennedys', and John and Carolyn had visited them several times. The rehearsal dinner and reception were held at the inn, a great rectangular frame house surrounded by oaks, and several...
...Nouveau number-one Yale, on the other hand, finds itself stuck in a cycle of turmoil. During the last few years, it has been in a struggle to overcome financial instability and labor strife. During the spring semester, undergraduates were forced to fend for themselves at mealtime when the dining service workers went on strike. Earlier in the year, Yalies were locked out of their own classrooms when teaching fellows there battled the administration. And unlike Princeton students, Harvard sophomores have never had to live in trailers. Whatever our problems as Harvard, we've never lacked teachers, food or permanent...
...under siege, and his health is shaky. He has succeeded in wrenching his nation from its statist past, but he has failed to shove it into a stable and prosperous capitalist future. Corruption, chaotic change and arbitrary rules are exploited by criminals and a class of well-connected nouveau riche, while ordinary Russians seethe over lost jobs, unpaid wages and a widening gap between rich and poor...