Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They came, waved a thermometer around, realized that it was really cold, turned up the heat a bit, but it is even colder now and they haven't turn it up again," he said...
...York Botanical Garden London's Crystal Palace is gone, but this turn-of-the-century greenhouse in the Bronx is alive and glinting. To restore this sizable jewel box, which showcases an indoor spectacle of plant life, required 17,000 new panes of glass. The firm of Beyer Blinder Belle, which also restored Ellis Island and Grand Central Terminal, gives back to America one more piece of its indispensable but fragile past...
...Ikea: "OR" Want to turn forbidding places into comfortable living spaces? Watch Ikea's men in white redo an operating room. The cardiac monitor looks just fabulous in the entertainment center. And that plant on the IV-drip stand is another deft designer touch...
...RAGTIME The musical version of E.L. Doctorow's best-selling novel could have been a high-minded bore, a musical for people who hate musicals. Or, given all the promotional hype (the show has been trumpeted seemingly since the Ice Age), another mega-disappointment. In fact, it turns out to be a landmark American musical. Doctorow's turn-of-the-century tapestry, mixing fact and fiction, has been expertly refashioned for the stage by playwright Terrence McNally; director Frank Galati has showcased it in a crisp and beautiful production; the score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty gets better with...
...Lion King--but it did produce one underrated gem, this tale of seedy Times Square before it got Disneyfied. Complain about the cliched book if you must, but few musicals are this hard-edged and slam-bang entertaining at the same time. And few songwriters can still turn out showstoppers like Cy Coleman...