Word: 1920s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both of these doting parents are Jewish emigres from central Europe who came to New York City as children in the late 1920s. For years, Lola has been the richest source of her daughter's comic material. "Do you know what my mother said to me on the opening night of Uncommon Women?" Wasserstein asks rhetorically. " 'Wendy, where did you get those shoes?' " When Isn't It Romantic was playing off-Broadway, Wasserstein's parents would stroll over to the theater and canvass the crowd. "My mother would call and say, 'Oh, what well-dressed people,' " Wasserstein recalls...
...upscale marketers Swid Powell. But in his buildings he has found a way out of architecture's tired to-and-fro between caricature modernism (the neurotic Rubik's Cubes of the deconstructivists) and caricature classicism (the pretty confections of the postmodernists). His best work combines virtues of 1920s European rigor and 1980s American charm, of Gropius and Graves. His designs tend toward the ascetic, and he is determined to invent, not simply revive old styles...
Ciuleandra, directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu, is based on a popular Romanian novel and depicts a crime of passion. It shows tonight at 9:00 p.m. and Sunday at 4:00 p.m. In it, a woman in the mid-1920s is killed by her husband and drama ensues. The film is shot in neo-expressionistic shadows and icy blues and the action unfolds in flashbacks, climaxing horrifically in the present...
...case study method--now regarded as the academic trademark of the Harvard Business School--has become a fixture across the River since its curriculum-wide introduction in the 1920s...
...early Dali was a different matter, an insecure and ravenously aggressive young dandy, wringing an uncanny poetry not only from his own neurosis but also from the psychic inflammations of Europe in the 1920s and '30s. Like his fellow Catalan Joan Miro, Dali was deep-dyed with images of place, among them the contorted rocks and flat beaches of the coast near the town of Figueras, where he grew up, and the flowing, bizarre buildings of Barcelona's master of art nouveau, Antonio Gaudi...