Word: well-to-do
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...designers to make it strange and wonderful, the perfect folly. But something is odd about the pavilions at this exposition: unlike the unmistakably fake, giddily impermanent stage-set structures of previous world's fairs, these seem curiously normal, like buildings one might encounter in Miami or a well-to-do Arizona suburb. Over $ the past decade or two, as stylistic jags and economics have made buildings in the real world flimsier, zanier and culturally mongrelized, real-world architecture has pretty much converged with world's fair architecture, and Expo '92 can be judged by virtually the same standards by which...
...early '60s it was crazy talk, downright revolutionary, particularly coming from a respected young Princeton graduate and Rome Prize winner. By the time his book was published in 1966, Venturi had actually built a house illustrating his alarming, thrilling ideas in a Philadelphia suburb, for the perfect client: his well-to-do socialist mother. As with much of his work since, he took the debased, muddled classical references residually present in most suburban houses and made them self- conscious, explicit, arch. The house was two decades ahead of its time. Imagine a Pop artwork from 1945, or a rap recording...
...ancestors make and lose many fortunes in Wales, America and Canada. A saloon-boy from deepest Wales becomes a well-to-do tailor, and the widow of a Major in the Revolutionary War must canoe up the Hudson River to safety in Canada...
...much better job with the money it is spending by balancing compassion with realistic notions of what can be done. It is not possible to offer unlimited medical care to everyone, nor fair to cushion the well-to-do with vast public-health-care subsidies while millions of American children and their parents go without. It's time for a cure...
What began as a trickle 15 years ago has turned into a wave of well-to-do outsiders, as business tycoons, movie stars and other pilgrims bring a taste of the Chardonnay-and-chevre life-style to the underpopulated northern rangelands. Rocker Huey Lewis has bought a spread in the western section of the state, joining anchorman Brokaw and stars Michael Keaton and Jeff Bridges. Fashion designer Liz Claiborne and her husband own not one but two ranches. "We went out to stay in a small resort and ended up buying the place," she says. Ted Turner has purchased about...