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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hampshire, parking tents, trailers or makeshift cardboard homes on site so they could live there as they worked, encouraging clients to pick up hammers and join them on weekends, and throwing parties in partly built houses to celebrate the completion of a foundation or their topping off of a roof. No, the Jersey Devil, which takes its name from a mythical creature said to threaten people in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, is no ordinary architectural firm. But don't get them wrong. Badanes, Jim Adamson, Greg Torchio and John Ringel are serious about what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Homes with Gusto | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...Blanche DuBois, while James Andreassi as Stanley sits lolling his tongue, shouting "Stella!" every fifteen seconds and occasionally spraying the overheated Blanche with a beer. Funny, but the humor fades long before the actors do. Not even the sudden introduction of Maggie from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as instant parodies of Mamet and Beckett tossed in like ingredients in Ubu's wild bouillabaise, can save it from ennui. Every now and then, though, Durang's original wit shines through the sledge-hammer production, as when Andreassi suddenly transforms into Brick from Cat: "What happened between Skipper...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: The Weird Kid In The Classroom | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...week that the Soviets will not be permitted to occupy their new embassy on Mount Alto in Washington until security can be assured for the U.S. in its new Moscow quarters. He conceded that the red-brick U.S. chancery, whose walls are already water-stained because of its unfinished roof, may be so bug-ridden that it will have to be demolished. The entire complex, which includes 114 occupied residential units and recreational facilities, had been budgeted at $89 million. The cost when it is finished, apart from the electronic cleansing, is now projected at $192 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crawling with Bugs | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...Navigator, introduced last year by Etak, a Menlo Park, Calif., company, is an electronic road map that calculates position by means of dead reckoning. Data from a solid-state compass installed in the vehicle's roof and from sensors mounted on its wheels are processed by a computer in the trunk and displayed on a dashboard screen. The car's position is represented as a fixed triangle; the map, showing a web of streets and avenues, scrolls down as the car moves forward and rotates sideways when it turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Driving by the Glow of a Screen | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...people came to smell the roses. Montgomery, whose 13-acre concern has a $4.6 million annual billing, said $900,000 of it comes from contacts made at the flower show. He was one of 53 major exhibitors. Their flora took up six acres under the roof of the Philadelphia Civic Center. Montgomery is as good as anyone at giving a primer on the mercantile side of the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Philadelphia: A Flower Show | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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