Word: singularability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explains Jaquelin Robertson, former New York City planning commissioner. "It is the life and character of the city. No one goes to Europe," he adds, "to walk along skywalks." Indeed, the profound urban lessons Americans have recently learned, in part, from Europe -- the importance of preserving old buildings, the singular pleasures of the piazza -- are at odds with the skywalk epidemic...
...perfect record. And it creates the perfect, paradigmatic problem: Where's the audience? Radio, like music generally, is tightly stratified, and Blades has brought off a singular aesthetic victory. But who will hear it? Who will play it? Previously, albums by the Panama-born Blades were recorded in Spanish and aimed at a Spanish-speaking audience. By making Nothing But the Truth in English, he has risked losing his core audience while still seeming perhaps too ethnic to a wider, whiter one. The record has not hatched a hit, and up till now has sold a modest 100,000 copies...
...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...
...Pritzker Prize goes to a pair of apostles of the International Style, lately profoundly out of fashion. The U. S.' s Gordon Bunshaft, 79, designed humane, impeccable office towers, notably the Lever House in Manhattan. Brazil' s Oscar Niemeyer, 80, was the singular creator of the major public buildings of Brasilia. Both say they would do it all the same way again...
...implication was that For the Record was unique in its venom and singular in its criticism. Yet apart from its astrological revelations and acid-limned portrait of the First Lady, it is not so much in a class by itself as the latest addition to a long, groaning shelf. Deaver. Haig. Stockman. Speakes. Regan. Even two Reagan children, Patti and Michael, have written slap-and-yell books about the First Family. And more are on the way. Helene von Damm, once Reagan's personal assistant and later Ambassador to Austria, has reportedly penned something less than a valentine...