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Inside: Ann Landers Miss Manners Sylvia Badger Sunday Snapshots Weddings Engagements THEilSarSUN February 4, 1996 Section Sunday T. 1 ff 1 Iv r-V 1- I 4sr Baltimorean shares pride in I ai'' 7 1 Stanley A. aesielski founded the Polish Heritage Association of Maryland to keep a spotlight on his family's heritage. The octogenari an's charitable efforts have produced scholarships here and sent health supplies to his ancestral home. Page 5l Gimme an 'M'! A 1 Aj hi 3 Jl.J! jffv- vK A 1 II.

iB" ill III III l.lllllll it 7 ii I I Barbara hAlJbuil Tayluh HUN ai AfF Energetic: Though other Power Plant ventures have gone up in smoke, David Cordish believes his "Metropolis" project will succeed. Meatball mania: As an hors d'oeuvre or as a meal, meatballs let cooks get creative in the kitchen. From EaMnfl' Well magazine come recipes that flavor the beefy little spheres with hot pepper, garlic or raisins. Page 2l 1 1 Look homeward: David (brditili retinites the eialeiifje of a pwjeel hi hitt own ciln. More Inside By Rob Hiaasen BUN STAFF -ft Bicarbonate wonder: Baking soda has many delightful uses.

Page2L Bed of frustration: Stress is the culprit in a couple's nonexistent sex life. Can this marriage be saved? Page5L Child Life: Preschooler shouldn't have a choice about the use of a car seat. Page 5l Miss Manners: Etiquette rules are as different as night and day. Page 6l Ann Landers: Woman is famous for a $20 gift. Page 8l Plant could fail again.

It's Mr. Cordish's game to win or lose now. "It's his hometown," says a childhood friend, Kalman "Buz-zy" Hettleman. "I don't think anyone with good sense would bet against him." Developers, like lawyers, are everywhere. There must be 185 million developers in the United States alone.

But what do they actually do? They don't pass the zoning laws; they don't draw the architectural plans; they aren't the contractors; they aren't the engineer or lawyer; they aren't the tenant; and they aren't the lender. "All these people who don't want to work together, who hate each other I bring them together," says David Simon Cordish, 56. "I'm in charge. I'm the quarterback. I'm the symphony conductor." He's conducting the Power Plant Overhaul.

"Lord knows he doesn't need it, but there was a lot of pressure on him to get into this venture," says his 86-year-old father, Paul Cordish. "People saying to him, Tou owe it to the city because your poppa and grandpa have been In November, the Cordish Co. made its power play. The company sold Baltimore on its $18 million idea of converting the building into See Cordish, 4l jl Behind the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, a time-tortured photograph on a retired school-house salutes the last class of School 49. See David Cordish pictured in the middle row.

In 1953, the young man clearly looked like he was going places. Behind the Power Plant, birds and boozers still crash at the fat load of smoke-stacked space at the Inner Harbor. Really, it's no way to treat Mr. Cor-dish's urban-renewal project. The Baltimore native could develop yet another mall in another time zone make some big deal the locals won't even hear about.

Instead, Mr. Cordish intends to re-invent Baltimore's mountain of red bricks. It's a tricky deal. No one can force people to spend Saturday nights dropping money in downtown Baltimore. Remember when the Power Plant was a nightclub called P.T.

Flagg's? The sign is still up, but no one remembers going there twice. Whatever the building will be called next, the Power On the town: Masks were all the rage at the 13th annual Casino Ball to benefit the Baltimore Museum of Art. Page 6l fiiZJ Index LLOYD FOX: SUN In charge: "I'm the quarterback. I'm the symphony conductor, "says 56-year-old David Cordish, describing the role of a developer. 7l 3l Antiques 3l Weddings Horoscope 6l Design Some collections have connections Kids, this is your mother speaking about raisingyou and it's no joke tieeming more furniture tines.

Some qf these reproduce lite look of actual antiques, but others take a looser approach. AM ENGAGED IN AN exhaustive, and exhausting, debate on the best way to raise children, but unfortunately it is not with Penelope Leach, my husband or Susan Reimer even my mother. It is with my children. I am not sure exactly when this happened, and indeed it might have been just a slow loosening of my By Elizabeth Large SUN STAFF listened to their complaints and criticism and their cries of unfairness. Jil lp i milium nr.nwiymi i 1 i M- i tii' 1 rninmimi" 'm hi i sign and quality of the piece.

Museum-based licensing programs aren't new they started with Williamsburg in the 1930s. What is new is their appeal to a much larger audience, perhaps the result of a broader approach that includes adaptations, "inspirations," and lifestyle collections involving historic cities. These pieces may cost less if they aren't exact replicas, and they may have been adapted to fit in better with the way people live today. "Consumers like what amounts to the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval," says licensing consultant Hermine Mariaux. "They definitely respond to that." A quick explanation of terms: Reproductions are more-or-less exact copies of the original furnishings.

They may differ from the original in size, material or manufacturing process (factory-made instead of handmade, for instance). An ad- See Museum, 3i about three minutes of my repeating everything he said, my son exploded in frustration. "Is there an echo in here, or are you just As part of this child-rearing debate with my children, I have been unfavorably compared to every other mother on the planet and to their father, who brings candy home from his office and presents home from business trips but I have been patient. No more. I have had it.

When my son said, "Even Bill Clinton says children should be able to divorce their parents," something like a grenade went off inside my head, and I have been barking at my children like an angry dog since. When my 11-year-old son demanded, yet again, to be allowed to rent violent video games See Reimer, 4i grip on the reins of power, but my children have come to believe that they should During each argument, I have carefully restated their concerns in a non-judgmental way to let them be equal partners in the i business of bringing them up. know that I have heard them and that I ac- cept them for who I they are. I (As an aside, I should say that And for a while I have indulged them. For the sake To buy a museum reproduction is to buy a bit of history as well as a piece of furniture.

With it you get what's known in the worlds of art and antiques as provenance, the history of a piece's origin. Perhaps this is no more than a hang tag that gives the background of the original furniture. But if you know that your purchase is part of a museum-based licensing program, you know the museum has sanctioned the company and had some say in the de this approach, called "active listening" in Parent Effectiveness of those precious lines of communication we keep hearing about, for the sake of their self-esteem, I have Training, did not I work well After Console: The original for this Baker reproduction is in the collection of the Charleston Museum. A i.