Word: vernacular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ALDO ROSSI, 66, sublime architect who reworked vernacular forms into designs of haunting beauty; after a car accident; in Milan, Italy. The Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena, Italy--a colonnaded arcade of chilling austerity--is one example of the poetic use of space that won him architecture's highest honor, the Pritzker Prize...
...times you may have loyally sat through Viva Las Vegas or Roustabout on the late show, you may not use the name and image of the King without the company's permission. If you do not desist, its minions will visit upon you what might be termed, in the vernacular, a hunka hunka burnin' litigation. And you will lose, because this company is bigger and richer than you are and has been down this road before...
...open to a constant stream of momentary impressions: smiles from Camel ads, shoulders from Ingres, pinups and Raphael--high and low, everywhere. In this way he became a bridge to a younger generation of painters, chiefly Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, who carried forward his exploration of the American vernacular...
...unpopulated syntax ("Have to look into that. See what happens in committee. Gotta go"). Dole speaks a language all his own. It's Indo-Midwestern, rooted in a place where there's no extra credit for extra words, where humor is often truth's only reliable vehicle. Dole's vernacular of nods, grunts, snickers and shrugs can be as baffling to outsiders as the Navajo code talkers were to the Japanese military. He rarely praised his staff members, even when he liked them; several left the leader's office frustrated and convinced he didn't, only to be surprised later...
...believes in the team approach' would be a vernacular way of putting it," he adds...