Word: staid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when British avant-garde architects adopted the American and Italian nostalgia for architectural "references" and ornamentation. In a few buildings designed with Partner Michael Wilford, Stirling made halfhearted concessions to historicism. His first completed U.S. commission, Rice University's 1981 School of Architecture in Houston, for example, is a staid, humbly conventional structure -- with an asymmetrically placed porthole punched in an end wall, almost as a defiant postmodernist afterthought...
...years. But the effect of the new concept on science and scientists has been much more immediate. One measure is the ferocity of debate it has generated in the past few months among eminent researchers, at conferences and in the letters-to-the-editor columns of major newspapers and staid journals alike. Supporters of the Milky Way proposal dismiss the Nemesis notion as "unlikely" and "ad hoc," and death star advocates are scornful of the galactic concept. Many consider all the newfangled extraterrestrial scenarios to be half-baked takeoffs of H.G. Wells. Says an indignant Dewey McLean, a paleontologist...
HEARTBREAKERS IS A SMART, intriguing film about men male ambition, last, fantasy and love--projected onto the widescreen of male friendship. Writer-director Bobby Roth explores the treacherous every man's zone between comradeship and rivals in the lifelong friendship of roughish artist. Arthur Blue (Peter Coyote) and staid businessman Eli Kahn (Nick Mancuso). Unfortunately for Roth's thirty-five year old heroes, three women keep coming between Blue and Eli, tangling up the friends' good intentions and bringing out their competitive worst...
...Crimson, April 26). C.J. Freshman's article only reveals his own insecurities: "This Hamlet is hardly a great man-but a bratty boy only a child psychologist could love, for $100 an hour." Hamlet was certainly done in a new way, but everyone can do without Freshman's staid criticisms. His review is constantly making references to the production being "less like" a rendition of Hamlet and more like a throwback on the tacky culture of the 1970's. This is ironic. In fact, Freshman's review is "less like" comment on Dalton's production and more evocative...
...front of the staid folk in the stands, two skaters will be displaying everything they have to offer...