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The entire Gulf Coast of Texas had been put on alert as Gilbert headed toward landfall. From Brownsville to Biloxi, Miss., people sought shelter from the storm, in many places clogging highways and emptying supermarket shelves. Houston, 50 miles inland, shuddered at the prospect of its glimmering skyscrapers swaying in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was No Breeze | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

The biggest resident theater company in North America is not to be found in New York City, Los Angeles or Chicago. Nor, as stage cognoscenti might suppose, is it in a thriving regional center like Minneapolis, home of the Guthrie, or a festival city like Ashland, site of the Oregon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Bard in Neon and Doublets | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

The absence of buildings in New Orleans done in the grand American scale was ordained partly by the sponginess of its ground. Anyone tempted to build a huge building had only to think of Charity Hospital, whose first floor had gradually become its basement. There is a theory that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans:The Town That Practices Parading | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

Now, all of a sudden, the rattiness is being excised. And in the process, several other qualities seem in danger of disappearing too: the reasonable scale, the special romance and the sense of celebration. On the pretext of rescuing Times Square, much of what makes the neighborhood special is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Renewal, But a Loss Of Funk | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

In skyscrapers, movie theaters or bed linens, the finest work of 1987 adapts echoes of the past to idiosyncratic, richly imagined visions.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page January 4, 1988 | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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