Word: stylishness
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...boom. But the two trends have abetted each other. The original '60s militants of the preservation movement were the shock troops of the upper middle class, and it was a broader swath of the same class who in the '70s made living amid urban antiquity seem both virtuous and stylish. Restored carriage houses and pressed-tin ceilings have seduced more children of the suburbs back to the city than mean, shiny apartment towers...
Alas, another irony: while gentrifiers as they first venture into an old neighborhood may be democratically inspired -- The diversity! The grit! -- they attract mobs of merely stylish followers who diminish the diversity and sweep away every last speck of grit. The old-line residents and the anchors of their communities -- the hardware stores, the cobblers, the taverns -- are driven out by suddenly high rents. Gentrification is not fun for everyone. Walter Reinhaus, a white graduate student, is renovating a Charles Addamsesque mansion in the middle of an all-black Chicago neighborhood. "With gentrification," he says, "it's easy...
Inspired by exotic wind-blown sandscapes and enchanted desert oases, the new Wrangler Sahara . . . features . . . khaki trailcloth seating, tastefully accented in tan, and matching khaki carpeting . . . a choice of khaki or coffee paint treatments, a khaki-color soft top the stylish way to get around for today's fashionable desert...
Hong Kong, which has perhaps the most freewheeling economy in the world, readily lets in imports and ships out exports like stylish clothing just as fast. Despite uncertainty about what will happen to the former British colony when China assumes sovereignty in 1997, business confidence is strong and economic growth is expected to reach 12% this year. Leaving many high-tech fields to the other NICs, Hong Kong is concentrating on being a financial center. Virtually all the world's major banks have offices there. Hong Kong is also developing its role as the gateway to the largest potential market...
Wearing a stylish pinstripe, double-breasted suit, Roald Sagdeyev, the director of the Soviet Space Research Institute, began by disarming the group of Cornell astronomers during a recent U.S. tour with a folksy story about a Russian woodsman. Then, in a voice strained from singing When the Saints Go Marching In to Soviets and Americans gathered at the Chautauqua Institution, he discussed the dangers of nuclear weapons and the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or Star Wars. Finally, the trim, 5-ft. 8-in. physicist, who rarely drinks and never smokes, concluded with his vision for a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R...