Word: pedestrianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the Great Dome at Quincy Market last night, the problems emerging from the debate between the two schools of thought were easily apparent. The evening was a study in contrasts, from the pedestrian Chicken Cordon Bleu served at Ritz-Carlton prices, to the disparate guest speakers, the Hon. Hamilton Fish Sr. '10 and former Marquette coach Al McGuire...
...chefs outraged at the attempt to Westernize the traditional Japanese cuisine by urging diners to drink Scotch instead of sake. But today millions of homes and almost every bar and restaurant stock at least some of Suntory's 15 brands. In price and quality, they range widely. The pedestrian Torys costs $2.25 a fifth, while Suntory's best, called The Whiskey, goes for a heady $250. Most popular brand: Suntory Old, which retails for $11.75 and comes in a distinctive black potbellied bottle. (The prices are slightly higher...
...laughter from Ed's wry rerun commentary. Who can forget Mr. Ed driving a milk truck down the streets of suburbia? Will the image of Mr. Ed at shortstop ever fade? And will the very name "Wilbur" ever be the same? For Ed's rolling cadences turned that pedestrian monicker into a symbol for everyman, a stable influence in a changing world...
...empty, a "malevolent" turtle rises. Yet somehow it just doesn't belong outside a subway station. "The turtle and frog basin, Reimann explains, "attempts to combine creatures native to the region to provide one of several foci intended to organize a hierarchy of visual and participatory elements articulating the pedestrian area of the main plaza." Run that by me again...
...worth considering how a seemingly pedestrian, and certainly non-artistic, purpose--giving unemployed people a job--fit into the results of the Project. Perhaps this explosion of creativity, and the Big Names that came out of it, had something to do with the way the basic need for relief--both in the Project itself and more generally in the nation--tempered artistic self-centeredness, even arrogance, to some extent...