Word: quirkier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bunshaft is the Miesian. As the chief design partner at New York City's Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he was the creator in the 1950s and early '60s of humane, impeccable steel-frame-and-glass-skin office towers, among the best built anywhere. Niemeyer is the prolific Corbusian, a quirkier and more perilously romantic builder of singular, often bombastic objects -- most notably the major public buildings of Brasilia, the utopistic Brazilian capital built all at once between...
Transferring success as an editor to the quirkier demands of columning is not automatic, and Rosenthal's first columns, going out to the 300 U.S. newspapers that subscribe to the New York Times News Service, have a way to go. But ^ Rosenthal, starting out on a new career at 64, is characteristically sure that he can successfully write about foreign affairs, love "or whatever else is in my head, and I hope it's not too lonely up there...
...folk band, they are quirkier, more talented, less obnoxious and almost as danceable as U2. It is not outside the realm of possibility that, if this band learns from their youthful mistakes and continues to match blistering riffs with supple hbarmonies, XTC's Andy Partridge might just call them up in search of ideas...