Today's cultural cues are about an entirely different vibe, with the pattern-heavy and playful 1970s making a comeback.
He created, in the Swallows and Amazons series, a 1920s halcyon dream-world anchored to a permanently playful summer holiday.
Bishop Egan does not have a reputation for cultivating the press in his diocese, but he was playful yesterday.
And for anyone yearning for vintage Italian design, a retrospective of the playful 1960s and 1970s furniture of De Pas, D'Urbino and Lomazzi opens Tuesday at La Triennale.
The entry is a high-ceilinged garage with a playful 1950s-style air-raid signter sinn in front of a commercial elevator.
The greatest song about fireflies ever written is almost certainly "Glow-Worm," Johnny Mercer's playful 1952 setting of a 1902 melody by Paul Lincke.
Austere scholars similarly deplored Simon Schama's use of novelistic devices in Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), his playful 1991 exploration of the possibilities of "historical novellas".
But the economics of sharing sounds suspiciously like communism to me.Ranko BonMotovun, CroatiaGermany at playSIR – You conclude, from low sales of digital games, that Germans are uninterested in games of all kinds ("Reasons to be playful", January 29th).
Virginia Woolf's playful 1933 fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, "Flush," featured a protagonist who sounded much like the author herself or one of her Bloomsbury associates, prone to high-flown musings about sympathy, friendship, and tyranny.
Smaller projects range from practical to playful: last year's batch included an open-source app to display bus arrival times and a public space installation featuring 15-foot beanbag chairs.
The gaudily playful 1,535-foot-tall 1,535-foot-tall 1,535-foot-tall 88-stOrientalao Tower (finished in 1998), which houses a Hyatt hotel with one of the world's highest hotel lobbies, are two that stand out.
