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...that multidimensional role is changing what a house looks like inside. The compartmentalized shelter with separate rooms for preparing food, eating, entertaining and watching television has been steadily giving way to an abode made up of larger, flexible living areas. So something had to give, and it has: the formal living and dining rooms. "Formals are dead," says Michael Herzog, a regional vice president with Centex Corp., one of the nation's largest homebuilders. Centex is designing formal-free homes, something most builders wouldn't even consider a couple of years ago. "There's a whole different thought process going...
...separate bedrooms for individual family members more feasible. In the postwar housing boom, the classic three-bedroom ranch gave each component of the nuclear family a room (but what moron decided that one bathroom would suffice?). By the early '70s everyone was going his own way. Who needed a formal dining room when no one wanted to eat together anyway...
...House. His favorite undergrad IM experience was rowing for the boat that won the Straus Cup in the spring of 2001. On that same crew boat, Lau made a love connection. “The girl who rowed on the third seat went with me to the formal,” Lau says with nostalgia. Now, however, there are strict rules against dating any of his advisees. “It’s one of the downsides of being an affiliate,” he says...
...President Charles M. Moore ’04 then prepared a formal letter of opposition and circulated it briefly before sending it last Tuesday to the owner of the Boston Machine, Henry Vara...
...following winter, he began his grievance proceedings, first lodging informal complaints with University and Faculty administrators, then filing a formal grievance with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...