Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those days of ostentation are gone. After the empire made the mistake of siding with the Germans in World War I, the Allied nations disbanded it in 1922. Modern Turkey is a democracy seeking admission to the European Community. Yet its former age of monarchy and splendor briefly reigns again on the banks of the Mississippi...
...feet. Here in Domenech's choral theater, it is baptism by total immersion. The "new Barcelona" may not, in the end, produce any buildings that rival those of the late 19th century. But the fact of bringing the old ones back to civic life, in all their splendor, would be achievement enough for any city administration, Games or no Games...
Harvard's trend of ugly architecture wasn't limited to residences. Many of the newer buildings closer to the Yard reach new levels of decided non-splendor...
Almost no student politico will admit to dreaming of White House splendor since their diaper days, but some began thinking about political careers early in life...
...physical splendor of Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern can seem at best anachronistic, at worst reactionary. Even the film's nomination for this year's foreign-language Academy Award might attest to the bland gentility of its virtues, if only because Red Lantern reprises the dour theme and visual extravagance of 1988's big winner, The Last Emperor. But this obscures the point of a brave, passionate and highly entertaining work of art. In the best movies, style reflects substance. And in this story of a wealthy man in 1920s China and the four women he keeps...