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...University of Southern California, calls the Santa Fe look "cinema architecture," an ultimately escapist style designed to comfort rather than challenge. Even some of its champions view its proliferation with alarm. "It's become too much a style," says Kellen, who has begun to shy away from using the Southwestern aesthetic. "A lot of people who don't understand it that well are making a cartoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Earth And Fire | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...While Southwestern style dominates domestic design, the Moorish arches and walled courtyards of the Southeast are appearing more and more in public and commercial architecture. From the historic Douglas Entrance to the city of Coral Gables, Fla., to Plaza Guadalupe in San Antonio, the Latin elements promise sunlight and accessibility, a sense of invitation. "I've always liked porches, arcades and transitional spaces that are open on the sides," says Miami Architect Hilario Candela, a partner in what he claims is the largest Hispanic-owned design and construction firm in the U.S. "Most Latin public spaces are essentially gregarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Earth And Fire | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

According to the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, the number of cattle reported rustled in Texas and Oklahoma annually has climbed from an estimated 5,300 in 1977 to approximately 6,750 last year. But that figure may not even begin to convey the size of the problem. An estimated three out of four thefts are never reported because ranchers know that the rustlers have probably been gone for weeks before the loss is discovered. In California 1,773 head of cattle were reported missing in 1987, but state officials estimate the actual loss to have been about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen On The Range | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...than two miles away. After a "horrible" freshman year, he transferred to the University of California at Santa Barbara. But, like Pananen, Thompson reconsidered his original decision to leave Cambridge. The anthropology major will graduate in June, having written his thesis on a small group of commercial fishermen in southwestern Alaska...

Author: By Thomas C. Troyer, | Title: Adjusting to College in the Lower 48 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...offset the problem of tuition, Linkous has worked during the summer at her father's photography store in Fairbanks. For his part, Merriner has fished for salmon on the state's southwestern coast and for crabs in the Bering Sea. Pananen plans to fight fires for the state government this summer--a job, he says, that pays well and is hard...

Author: By Thomas C. Troyer, | Title: Adjusting to College in the Lower 48 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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