Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architecture, Peachtree Center is neat, competent and mostly bland. But as a boost for the center city, it has worked wonders. By zesty street designs-bright colors, flags, modern sculpture, trees and fountains-Portman created a pleasant environment that brought new life downtown. Other Atlanta developers have followed his lead. They, too, have built, not isolated towers, but large, coherent projects with hotels, apartments, shops, offices and sport facilities. Result: Atlanta has one of the healthiest downtowns...
...would have been both pleasant and salutary to see a film about a good match prevailing against the odds-sort of like seeing a re-release of a Nick and Nora Charles picture. But it would have required the wit and style that informed the inexpensively made Thin Man films and other light, sophisticated romances, some of which starred Lombard herself. These qualities, once so readily found in American movies, have now vanished. A cloddish script slams at us single-entendre jokes about sex. Doltish direction hammers them home with the sweaty desperation of a bad nightclub comic whose...
...lone figure bounds around the Quad decked out in a ski hat, sweater, sweat pants and moccasins. Although it is 10 a.m., jogger is still half-asleep, since his "trainer," an exception to his belief that "Cliffies, for the most part, need help," has just woken him from pleasant dreams...
...would be pleasant but wildly optimistic to hope that every other picture in the exhibition in which this portrait of Philip IV may be seen-"The Golden Age of Spanish Painting," organized by the Prado's director, Xavier de Salas, at London's Royal Academy, through March 14-were at this august level...
...more than 50 years, Holden Green has served as a pleasant married housing community for about 100 Harvard student families...