Word: playroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Southside Park Cohousing. Front porches on the neo-Victorians look out on the surrounding community. Inside, kitchen windows and plate-glass back doors face one another over the common green space, as if two dozen families had one huge backyard. In the central building, residents share a dining room, playroom, mailboxes, laundry room, TV, exercise equipment and a lounge with a fireplace. They take turns cooking the three common meals served each week. Afterward, they relish the opportunity to share cars, swap furniture and get together without planning...
...theaters, drive-in restaurants, drive-in banks and, most important, the shopping mall--Main Street reconfigured for cars. Society was transfigured: the automobile brought America to a new frontier made up of Tinkertoy communities full of undefined relationships and spaces, with the car itself an extension of living room, playroom, bedroom, with the whole country viewed through the windshield...
Sitting on the couch in the living-room, just off the playroom filled with Edward's toys, the threesome present a snapshot of family happiness...
...generally driven by trenchant wit this year, but Nissan's spot amounted to topnotch satire of one of auto advertising's perennial themes: the right wheels always win you the babe. To the beat of Van Halen's You Really Got Me, a G.I. Joe look-alike leaves one playroom, hits the road for another in a sporty coupe and picks up a silver-lamed faux Barbie from her plastic manse. The crestfallen loser? A dull, preppie sort. The message? Drive Nissan...
Charities covered P.J.'s medical expenses, but local residents chipped in to build a special playroom that blocks out ultraviolet rays and filled it with every toy imaginable. While the room was being built, a young carpenter came to help lay the concrete floor. "He kept sanding and sanding and asking us what kind of finish we wanted," Deloris recalls. "The two carpenters with him told him that it was fine like it was because all we were going to do was put carpeting down." After the carpenters had gone, Deloris looked outside, and the man was still there, sanding...