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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (64937)	3/20/2004 10:28:32 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

That was fascinating, Croc, and no, I hadn't realized that your specialization was architectural history. I have wondered about the big "McMansions" (love your term!) -large foyers, high ceilinged rooms- and what motivated that style! It is prevalent here in Yuppieville, and now it makes great sense to me because there is a lot of nouveau wealth here, lots of pretension. We hated all the ones we looked at. But we have our own pretensions. We bought the Victorian for what it represented to us. I've been to some of those large dinner parties but dislike them intensely. There are usually one or two men who dominate the conversation with their opinions and sneer at others and wit is often lacking. I have been amazed at how little people read. They get their ideas from Fox News. Once I tried to talk to a man about literature and he said he loved to read and had just finished the greatest book ever written and that I MUST read it and pass it on. He ran out to his car and brought in the first of those terrible Tim LeHaye Rapture books. My favorite dinner parties used to be here on DAR where the food was often strange but the conversation was the most witty and intelligent around. Or maybe durian is a hallucinogenic. New Brutalism! Now that is just what I mean. I had to go look it up and educate myself. I know NOTHING about architecture. "...was used to reflect the harshness and the confusions of modern life". It is so interesting the way all the arts reflect our times. Ammo just did a paper on experimental theatre in the 60s. It would seem to fit well with New Brutalism.