Word: preservationist
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Pitts' professional fame -- and her reputation in some quarters as a "guerrilla preservationist" -- originated with an audacious maneuver she made 21 years ago in the seaside town of Cape May, N.J. The community is a melange of Victorian follies -- gingerbread homes with broad, windswept verandas -- that had once been a summer playground of the wealthy. But it fell from favor and became an oceanfront backwater...
...mountains and sea, produces a smog worthy of Los Angeles. Some may even view as excessive chauvinism the natives' insistence on speaking Catalan rather than Spanish. But those who take the time will discover in this most Mediterranean of cities a rare personality, fanatically avant-garde yet obsessively preservationist. First century Roman baths are being excavated amid the twisting streets of its dense Gothic quarter. The famous Picasso Museum is housed in a 15th century palace; the main Olympic stadium is a renovated 1929 arena. This month Antoni Tapies, Catalonia's best-known living painter, will open, in a refurbished...