Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prato (pop. 160,000), for instance, the profits of family-owned textile businesses amounted to $1.5 billion last year, or about as much as Montedison and the rest of the chemical industry lost. Prato has 15,000 "factories," of which 13,000 employ ten people or fewer. The yellow stucco houses present strange sights: family wash hanging out of the upstairs windows, while lower floors are filled with spindles, looms and dye vats...
...picture of palm trees swaying gently under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully in the yard. And, of course, a couple of sunburned senior citizens of Miami Beach, he in a Hawaiian shirt and she in purple culottes, waiting their turn on the shuffleboard court...
...larries do the bulk work, in this case a lot of hand smearing of stucco on elaborate stairs and platforms, a lot of painting, a lot of sealing cracks with muslin and Elmer's glue. The techies are left to chip away at details the rest of the week, assemble platforms into superstructures, dream up fanciful gels and filters for lighting--and, Thursday night, to dim the houselights and see what they have...
...many of Yamit's white stucco homes and concrete apartment blocks have been deserted by those who have accepted the Israeli withdrawal as inevitable. But not everyone is going quietly. Empty buildings are occupied by squatters who have been brought in by Gush Emunim, the ultranationalist religious movement that has spearheaded the establishment of Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. The Gush now has about 125 families settled in and around Yamit expressly to prevent the Israeli withdrawal. Just last week 25 families moved into the local motel. In addition, they were joined in Yamit by three militant...
...enterprise. How that can work for the future of the American city can best be seen in Columbia, Md., a new kind of community that was developed and planned down to the shape and color of the street lights (round and white) by the Rouse Co., whose four-story, stucco-and-glass headquarters are located beside one of the town's three man-made lakes. The community's 22 sq. mi., almost the size of Manhattan, were quietly, even furtively, assembled over nine months. The farm land had been an obvious target for piecemeal subdivision. Modeled largely on British garden...