Word: landmarking
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...Central Park. There he has opened a $2.5 million gustatorial pleasuredome that may in time rival its long-running Parisian counterpart, the Grande Cascade in the Bois de Bou logne. It is called the Tavern on the Green, but it bears as much resemblance to the 42-year-old landmark of that name as La Belle Sole de la Manche Meunière does to cheeseburgers (both delicacies will be available at the revivified Tavern...
...Angeles the only game in town seems to be talking about "getting your head together" and then never doing it. In New York it's fashionable to decry the physical deterioration of "landmark" buildings and then forget about them on the way to your air-conditioned office. But in Charleston, S.C., citizens' groups have restored entire blocks to antebellum splendor...
...really think the area is on the downswing in terms of crime these days," says Lenny Saviano, a detective in the Cambridge police department, whose familiar neon sign ("POLICE") is itself a famous Square landmark...
Throughout its 300-year history, the Paris Opera has probably boasted more foibles than any other company-and, given the vicissitudes of the average opera company, that is saying a lot. Back in the 1770s, when it got ready to put on Gluck's landmark opera Orfeo and Euridice, 18th century male-chauvinist Parisians balked at having a male contralto play the hero, considering that an affront to their manhood; poor Gluck had to rewrite the part for tenor. In the 19th century, even a Wagner or a Verdi had to include a ballet in his opera or risk...
...Stokowski made his first recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Those were the days when the musicians gathered in front of a big acoustic horn and played into it. With the advent of electrical recording less than a decade later, Stokowski and the Philadelphia began a series that remains a landmark in quality recording. Then, as now, the Stokowski style is unmistakable-the lush violins, the burnished double basses, the biting brass, the luxuriance of the total sound...