Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there many tours that stop at the corner of 14th and Belmont, where stained couches lie cut open on the sidewalk. Washington is 70% black. Not all is poor black; the "Gold Coast'1 out along 16th Street is largely black and upper middle class and stucco. But the city has more than its share of the ravages of poverty, a situation not improved after the riots of 1968, when "white flight" to tranquil McLean, Va., and such places left the city poorer...
...have been here 50 years or more, residents of the town long before Ford built the giant plant in 1966. Ford makes its "midsize" Thunderbird in Lorain--"ugliest cars they've ever built," says the mayor of Lorain as he sits atop the town's city hall, a white stucco and glass Emerald City in the midst of chipping brick and decaying concrete...
...community for horse lovers, he installed fountains, pools and a brimming watering trough as long as a lake, whose still surface reflects the thickly set eucalyptus trees. In another subdivision devoted to horsemen, Barragán converted two abandoned horse troughs into a heroically scaled fountain: a massive red earth stucco wall carries an aqueduct that pours water into the pool, all set off by a long pink stucco wall that makes approaching riders look like figures in an Egyptian frieze...
...father, Herb (Ron Leibman) formerly a successful screenwriter, now has a seemingly terminal case of writer's block. He is bantering away his life. Asked if he owns the West Hollywood Spanish stucco quarters he lives in, he answers, "Hell, no. The apartment belongs to six termites who lease it to four mice, and I rent it from them." An off-and-on bedmate, Steffy (Joyce Van Patten) completes Herb's agile ménage...
...curious restaurant. Squatting in the middle of a glass-strewn parking lot overlooking a smelter, the Colosseum is a little bit of Italy in West Springfield, Mass. After all, there is the Toga Room. And the Julius Room, and the Caeser Room. And the place is curved, in stucco appreciation of the real thing. And there's marble in the bathrooms, except it's peeling near the sinks, where the water has soaked off the backing...