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Given its reputation for Balkan intrigue, the country itself strikes visitors as remarkably serene. In Sofia, a charming if somewhat dowdy city of more than 1 million, main boulevards are lined with massive public edifices, and cobbled side streets are crammed with quaint but tumble-down houses of stucco and red tile. Although policemen can be seen directing traffic, the uniformed squadrons that patrol some other Soviet-bloc capitals are absent; if the police are out of sight, they can nonetheless appear on the scene when necessary. The coast along the Black Sea is dotted with hotels built to attract...
...Brown had craftily employed stiff wooden benches to both symbolize austerity and discourage lingering. Deukmejian, who has been camping out in a Holiday Inn, says he wants to move into the unoccupied Governor's mansion built by Ronald Reagan's former administration. Brown shunned the 25-room stucco house set on eleven green acres as too opulent. Brown's government tried to sell it, but rejected the few bids...
...fact is, though it may seem a great distance from the shacks of the Bayou backwater to the pink stucco of the Burbank 'burbs. Reynolds, in his latest film, hasn't really changed at all--his acting style is the same. Unlike such granite monoliths as Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood, he's always gotten by on cuteness rather than caliber. But this lack of depth has never really mattered before...
Whatever the obstacles, telecommuting seems particularly rich with promise for millions of women who feel tied to the home because of young children. Sarah Sue Hardinger has a son, 3, and a daughter three months old; the computer in her cream-colored stucco house in South Minneapolis is surrounded by children's books, laundry, ajar of Dippity Do. An experienced programmer at Control Data before she decided to have children, she now settles in at the computer right after breakfast, sometimes holding the baby in a sling. She starts by reading her computer mail, then sets to work converting...
...Naples, 1980-82, presents itself as a soft hive of colored blobs, blooming and twinkling in rows, against a dark ground. Lit windows? Strings of restaurant lights? A view from a terrace? Then more specific things appear: a pinkish vertical, another stage flat, turns into a stucco wall; a cobalt patch at the center, where the vanishing point would be if there were any perspective, resolves itself as a glimpse of sea; the S of creamy green paint that lights the whole painting with its contradictory glare, leaping against the more tentative and modulated speckling of the rest...