Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Back Room at the Idler, a short walk from the Square at 123 Mt. Auburn St., is currently attempting a revival of sorts. Aside from a new ceiling and some interesting architectural experiments with the entrances, this means Paul Rischel with country, urban and suburban blues tonight and Friday, Reeve Little with good, solid folk on Saturday and Sunday, John Kolstad with cowboy folk on Monday, and Chris Rhodes with a mixed bag on Tuesday...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris decided to begin her revolution at the bottom. To her staffs amazement, she insisted on lunching in the employee cafeteria, standing in the chow line like everyone else...
Fashion Image. Borrowing heavily from the weekly New York magazine, the Times now pursues an urban consumer audience whose trendy spenders are told what to eat, where to go and how to buy. Or, as the Times quotes the president of Macy's: "Food is part of a fashion image these days, and the really with-it person has to be interested." He could not have summarized better the philosophy of the New New Times. The daily Times has added more than 35,000 readers on the days its supplements appear. But in the schizophrenic division of its appeal...
...Urban Machine. To the chagrin of some Parisians, the competition was won by two foreigners, Italy's Renzo Piano and Britain's Richard Rogers. In the midst of Beaubourg's crumbling brick and mortar, they proceeded to construct what they called a "living urban machine." They planned a six-story building to be formed literally inside out -structural supports on the outside, along with a formidable array of ducts, gantries, movable mezzanines and color-coded pipes for heating, electricity, air conditioning and fire control. Attached to one external facade is a huge escalator with transparent walls, illustrating...
Laqueur, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., compares modern terrorism with bygone atrocities. He coolly concludes that urban guerrilla movements, such as the extinct Tupamaros of Uruguay, may have seen their day. The reason, as Laqueur dryly notes, is that the decline of liberal democracy in many parts of the world makes it harder to be a terrorist. The Tupamaros, for example, began not under the heel of a dictator but in one of Latin America's most democratic nations. The membership, much of it privileged youth, successfully undermined the authority...