Word: perks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This revival of color-mainly mock-industrial color, the sharp hues used for coding function in factories-extends to other architects. The "high-tech" look that pervades Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer's projects is inherently slangy and decorative. If one buys a sculpture to perk up a building, it argues, one will probably get something made of brightly painted pipes, drums and I-beams. So why not forget sculpture and paint the ducts one has? "We've plunged headlong into the decorative arts," says the firm's head, Hugh Hardy. "Craftsmanship is busting out all over. It's clearly a reaction...
...hearted dancing and stage business. Not until the middle of the second act does the cast loosen up, and give a taste of what the entire show could have been like. In the traditional encores after the trio, "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore," Prince, Falk and Weary suddenly perk up and begin to command the Loeb stage. It doesn't matter that many of their routines are classic D'Oyly Carte fare--they start to look like they're having fun. The rest of the act, through the big finale, benefitted...
Certainly offenses have begun to perk up under the new rules. Championships may be won by tightfisted defenses, but the offensive flair that was typical of the old A.F.L. has finally taken lively root in the sport, and this season has already produced 330 more points than last year. Los Angeles Coach Ray Malavasi explains: "The N.F.L. had gotten stereotyped, but the A.F.L. came up with new formations- multiple fronts, multiple coverages, using men in motion -and in the past four or five years, teams have begun to use them...
...city is Cleveland, home of a famed symphony orchestra, a first-rate art museum and 25 major corporate headquarters, a number surpassed among cities only by Chicago and New York. Most Clevelanders thought they had escaped becoming a national joke last year when they voted out Mayor Ralph Perk. He once set his hair ablaze with a welding torch while showing his affinity for the workingman during a campaign appearance at a local steel mill...
...Perk's successor, voters chose Dennis Kucinich, 32. He appointed as department heads a group of young Turks who sometimes seemed better suited for an Our Gang movie than for governing a city of 623,000 people. The Kucinich administration quickly shook up the city's business and political establishment-so badly that a recall campaign came within 236 votes of ousting him from office last Aug. 13. Now almost everything seems to be going wrong in Cleveland...