Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skyscraper, that uniquely American form. As a symbol of Promethean energy, the skyscraper has never been surpassed. It is the architecture of smooth-flowing congestion, an American ideal, and it took ever more glorious forms in such designs as the Empire State Building and the great, self-sufficient urban complex of Rockefeller Center...
...paranoia many Americans felt at the rapid change of their society under the pressure of immigration--"Ellis Island art." But early American Modernists were concerned, sometimes obsessed, with rendering peculiarly American experience. Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was fascinated by the blaring contrasts of signs and numbers on the new urban surface; John Marin (1870-1953) believed that "you cannot create a work of art unless the things you behold respond to something within you...Thus the whole city is alive." Of course, the greatest Modernist work of art in New York was the city itself: its impaction, strangeness, clamorous variety...
...star of his own sweeps-month network special, David Blaine: Street Magic (ABC, May 19, 8 p.m. E.T.). "It's a roll of the dice," admits ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses. "But David is very contemporary, of his generation, hip, cool. We think he can pull in the young, urban audience...
DIED. ANN PETRY, 88, African-American novelist who immortalized a grim Harlem street and its human casualties; in Old Saybrook, Conn. In The Street (1946), she shows how the hopes of its Harlem inhabitants were desiccated by a malevolent urban wasteland...
...candidate Mary Landrieu and help her win the race. When Fields showed up for work in Washington on March 31, he found that the prestigious job he had expected on Gore's staff, coordinating empowerment zones, was instead a much lower post doing the same thing at Housing and Urban Development. Fields, who rejected the job, says the debacle was "a real bad experience...