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Minneapolis named its new $55 million stadium after a delightfully long-winded favorite son. So it was no small irony that the roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome collapsed for lack of hot air. Two months ago, the stadium's ten-acre nylon cover was inflated with electric fans. Then a heavy snow came unexpectedly early: a hot-air melting system was not yet in full operation. The fabric big top sagged under the weight of the slush, then tore, and finally drooped to within 60 ft. of the field. It took four days to repair...
...temples of vulgarity: a Cape Cod cottage on Chicago's South Side, wrapped in garishly colored stone veneer, white wrought-iron tracery and striped aluminum awnings; a semidetached gilded castle in Bayonne, N.J., concocted from pendages; and the astonishing acrobatic stance of a new room cantilevered from the roof of a bungalow in Birmingham. These transformations are a spontaneous expression of the "complexity and contradiction in architecture" that Robert Venturi, in his famed book of that title, asked postmodern architects to design into their buildings. But no postmodernist would dare produce the assaults on aesthetics that some of these...
...company cuts costs at every step, beginning with the concrete slabs on which each home sits. Crews stretching out for four blocks lay foundations for a whole neighborhood. Construction hands then nail frames and panels assembled in company factories to the slabs, and add prebuilt roof sections and wood siding. The least expensive cottages take only 33 days to construct. Conventionally built houses, by contrast, may take up to 36 days. While one of the bedrooms in some models is too small for a double bed, the living rooms and kitchens have vaulted ceilings, giving an impression of spaciousness. Because...
...under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully in the yard. And, of course, a couple of sunburned senior citizens of Miami Beach, he in a Hawaiian shirt and she in purple culottes, waiting their turn on the shuffleboard court...
...most of the U.S., they would be something of a rarity these days-three generations under one roof. They share a modest, four-bedroom house in Westchester, a mostly Cuban town in the western part of Dade County: Carlos Marquez Sterling, 83, and his wife Waldina Hernández Cata, 66; Daughter Uva, 37, and her husband Jorge J. Clavijo, 45; and their two children, Uvi, 17, and Christina, 12. As has been true of other Cuban families with several generations living in South Florida, some members of the Marquez Sterling dynasty have found adjusting to the American...