Word: reals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seaside, Fla. This is a real old-fashioned small town, built from scratch since 1981. Developer Robert Davis and planners Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk have laid down simple, thoughtful rules derived from epicenters of charm such as Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, with their narrow streets, porches, alleys, wood siding, pitched roofs and absence of picture windows. On this master plan they let individual owners (148 so far) execute their own versions of the Seaside housing code with personal architects. The heterogeneity is real; the harmony is deep. Seaside could be the most astounding design achievement...
...this New York City project. Housing and shops and offices and parks neatly dovetail. Various architects designed smallish high-rises under the supervision of planners Alexander Cooper and Stanton Eckstut. Right out of a dead zone -- landfill on the southwestern tip of Manhattan -- something quite like a piece of real city is emerging...
...Roth's trilogy of novels about the American Jewish writer Nathan Zuckerman seems even more impressive whole than it did in its serial installments. Zuckerman is not Roth, exactly, but neither is he entirely unlike his creator, trapped by work and celebrity. The interplay between these fictional and real beings is unfailingly rich, comic and engaging...
...been stalled for more than 50 years by the inconvenience of the woman's happy marriage to someone else. Garcia Marquez does so with no visible effort. The magic realism of his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970), is muted here. The later novel's surfaces seem real; the inner lives are fantastic...