Word: pizazz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the proliferation of postwar suburbs, which sucked millions of families out of the cities, downtowns quickly lost their old pizazz. Then the redevelopment binge of the '50s and '60s came disastrously close to indulging the American antiurban instinct to the point of no return. Political pressure to build new housing for the inner-city poor was intense. Urban renewal, a well-intended and wrongheaded federal mission, in those days meant tearing down quirky, densely interwoven neighborhoods of 19th and early 20th century low-rise buildings and putting up expensive, charmless clots of high-rises. Or, even worse, leaving empty...
COVER: A passion for urban restoration brings polish and pizazz back downtown...
...Anything Goes to 1934. So their joyous returns do not prove that theater people know how to make 'em like they used to. What these revivals do display is a corps of talented Yanks who can design, direct, choreograph and perform with all the panache and pizazz of the Britons who of late have dominated the musical stage...
Depressed by dreary drapes and rugs? Drive- up decorators offer an instant overhaul. -- Swizzle sticks take on new pizazz...
...road shows of Broadway hits compare with the originals? For performance pizazz, many are as good or even better...