Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, not everyone can afford a modernist house. The attitude--simple but stylish living--can be achieved almost as well, and far more cheaply, with furniture from the period. The most desirable are the designs by the husband and wife team of Charles and Ray Eames. A worldwide tour of their work is now at London's Design Museum and coming to the Library of Congress among other U.S. venues next year. Original Eames pieces fetch high prices. Bonhams, a London auction house, is holding a sale of the couple's furniture this week. The reserve price for a prototype...
Despite protests to the contrary, the Aztec "concept" computer Intel showed off last week is strikingly similar to Apple's iMac: it's small and colorful, the trippy case is sealed shut and there's no floppy. Intel hopes the stylish design will lure buyers put off by the drab, hulking PCs sold now. The chipmaker won't actually make the machine, but is prodding PC vendors to do so by late next year...
...composer), today his only universally recognized piece is the "Wedding March" from his "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Most people do not know it was Mendelssohn who wrote it, which is quite a shame. Mendelssohn and his music were often described as precocious and charming. His work is lyrical, stylish and elegant, beautiful in any century...
Back in the day, sometime before adopting a stylish sense of ironic detachment, today's collegiate sophisticates paid reverence to teen idols. In that angstful era when first kisses were still wishes, when cuffed jeans, jelly bracelets and crimped hair were still in, the children of the 80s absorbed Duran Duran, Madonna and Tiffany...
Which would you rather watch: a responsible and balanced ABC News report about the tragic but accidental crash of TWA Flight 800--or a stylish, X-Files-like show exposing the bastards who blew her out of the sky, narrated by conspiracy auteur Oliver Stone...