Word: sprawls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FRONT OF THE TEMPLE'S ceremony room, set off by red-velvet stage curtains, was the altar. Fronting the alter-stage was a three foot wooden collection box--a glass panel exposing a substantial sprawl of bills. Behind the box, yellow marble steps tiered upwards towards a row of white lattice huts, all backed by silver lame curtains. Inside the huts, decked with purple and red leis, sat various wide eyed Kewpie doll recreations of Krishna. The whole thing was strongly reminiscent of a Wheel of Fortune Fun in Hawaii showcase...
Time to pension off that oldie, at least where the visual arts are concerned. The '80s have been growth years for new museums across America, and nowhere more so than in Los Angeles. The end of 1986 saw a variety of art institutions either up or growing amid the sprawl of freeways. The most newsy, which opened early in December to a white glare of publicity faintly shaded with apprehension, is the Museum of Contemporary Art, known by its acronym MOCA. It was closely preceded by the $35 million Robert O. Anderson building, a new wing intended...
Gehry, 57, has lived in Southern California almost continuously since he was a teenager, and his buildings are Californian -- brash, unpretentious, ad hoc, construction-worker constructivist. For him, imperfect construction details and urban sprawl are now American givens: the challenge is to make buildings that are compelling in spite of off-the-rack materials and confused, banal surroundings...
...rubbing shoulders with rough-and-tumble stock traders who sport little of the old-school polish but plenty of the street savvy that has suddenly become worth unheard-of six-figure salaries. Unable to contain the activity, the City is bursting at the seams, as rapidly expanding investment houses sprawl farther along the Thames into London's formerly dreary docklands...
...expulsions illustrated, there is a delicate balance between freedom and authoritarianism in Indonesia. For two decades President Suharto, 64, has struggled to maintain stability in his strategically located republic. The archipelago's 13,677 islands sprawl 3,200 miles across some of the world's busiest East-West sea-lanes. With 173 million citizens, 87% of them Muslims, Indonesia is the world's fifth most populous nation. Though nonaligned, it has been friendly toward the U.S., and vice versa...