Word: soho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of Sontag's other colleagues, however, responded with a barrage of criticism, much of it published in the Nation, the Village Voice and the Soho News. Many argued that American socialists, including Sontag, have long criticized the Soviet Union as a perversion of Marxism, and need not feel guilty about Moscow's continued transgressions. Wrote Socialist Organizer Ralph Schoenman, who put together the rally: "What was particularly unnerving to those who have known Sontag well, and who have been involved with her in past efforts to defend those under attack in 'Communist' states...
...rough and decaying, trucks rumble by and the streets are dusty and dirty. It seems to be just another semi-deserted warehouse district near the city center--an environment far removed from the refined, the cultural and the artistic. And it is precisely here that Boston's equivalent to Soho in its heyday has sprung...
Hucy feels that the artists' presence spurred the development plane. "I don't ware this area to become what Soho is," she says. "Just look what happened there. After the artists moved in, the area became enough after. Rents went up and poorer artiest were forced to move out. More commercial types like advertising executives moved in, and the area became more and more sophisticated and slick. Well, I don't want to move to a slummy section of town just became developers like the areas where artists stay. Artists are being used as pawns in the property development game...
...interested in painted hedonism; and yet his practice of painting "all over"-by covering an entire field with incidents that were not arranged in hierarchies of size or emphasis-became, in a stupefied way, the basis of the ornamental "pattern and decoration" mode that came out of SoHo in the late...
...South House didn't crumble. SoHo halfback Andy Stoebner scored his team's only six-pointer on a six-yard run culminating a 70-yard drive which used all of the time in the third quarter. The extra point conversion failed and the SoHo eleven were unable to manufacture another productive march for the remainder of the game...