Word: pruitt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gwydir 2-0-4; Mark Setteis 9-0-18. Dale Smith 1-0-2; George Meikle 4-0-8; Sean Couch 4-0-8; Paul Lee 1-0-2; Todd Williams 4-0-8; Chip Adams 1-0-2; Scott Thomas 0-0-0; Chris Pruitt 0-0-0; Kevin Mclvor 0-0-0; Totals...
What turned them-and countless laymen-against such a future is that so much of it was realized. In St. Louis all 33 buildings in the unlivable concrete Pruitt-Igoe housing project were deservedly demolished in the mid-1970s. The sudden popularity of historic building preservation is, in large measure, a rebellion against modern design. "Don't tear it down" more often than not means "Don't build it up!" The phenomenal increase in handicrafts is to a certain extent a reaction against the design of industrial products. The most successful feats of contemporary urban design...
...expected to pick up on the plethora of New York catch phrases with which Prager litters her stories. Even "The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device," a cynical tale of women fighting in combat-ridden Vietnam, contains a few passing references to "a gay friend of mine who does props for the Met." Bendel's department store, the "Hers" column, Jerzy Kosinski, Brearley and, yes, the Fly Club manage to sneak into the collection's other stories...
...collection's longest story--"The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device"--that Prager really lets all, her fantasles hang out. Here she details the adventures of operation. Foxy Fire, a special female detachment stationed in Vietnam. Under the direction of a frigid Radcliffe grad (Major Victoria Lincoln-Pruitt), a strange conglomeration of prostitutes and army career women prepares to implement the war's newest and most terrifying weapon, the L.P.A.R.D. This nasty device, used either offensively or defensively, makes casual sex an extremely dangerous enterprise--at least...
...what could anyone do? There were extreme cases of protest--one International Style housing project, Pruitt Igoe in St. Louis was recently destroyed because everyone hated it so much. But mostly people learned to tolerate the boxes, egged on by the architect, relentless propaganda. They couldn't build worth a damn, Wolfe says, but they sure did write persuasively...