Word: styleless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Venturi saw the everyday commercial vernacular-McDonald's, Ramada Inn, Burger King, Tastee-Freez, Fatburger. Kentucky Fried-as a source, just as the International Style had used the "styleless" metaphor of machinery, biplanes and ocean liners as its source...
...store"* is trying to shake its dowdy image and lure the fashion-and style-conscious shopper of the 1970s. Gone are the ground-floor budget counters where shoppers elbowed for hats, scarves and socks. Gone also are the unimaginative displays of cut-rate drugs and the dull racks of styleless garments. In their places are gleaming glass cases of jewelry and perfume, flanked by gold-crowned marble columns and overhung by glittering chandeliers. A plush green carpet, 12 ft. wide and 318 ft. long, runs along the first floor...
...90th year; many have not been reproduced before. The wonder is that despite their stark eloquence, they are almost upstaged by the text-also by O'Keeffe. She describes her surroundings in Abiquiu, N. Mex., recalls the '20s when D.H. Lawrence was underfoot. Her voice is laconic, styleless, arrow straight to the point. About one of her pictures of bleached pelvic bones, she notes: "I was the sort of child that ate around the raisin on the cookie and ate around the hole in the doughnut. So probably-not having changed much -when I started painting pelvic bones...
...Marietta Street, one of four Atlanta job insurance offices of the Georgia department of labor. There is not much to do except try to keep dry. At 8 a.m. the door is unlocked, and the crowd enters in an orderly manner. The ground-floor room is cavernous, a styleless box with a checkered floor and long counters across the far end. Within an hour, 300 people are queued more or less neatly in six lines at the counters...