Word: atop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each feature was charted in color on a separate transparent map. When McHarg superimposed all the maps atop each other, he saw, shining through the colors, a thin line of white that marked the highway's optimum route. Later he used the same method to pinpoint exactly where different land uses should occur with "the least costs and greatest savings and benefits on all of Staten Island...
...parts are displayed in glass cases as if they were gems. The highways glitter with the carapaces of new automobiles, while the finned monsters of the '50s have all crawled off to ghetto side streets to die. Even the city's showplaces are touched with the grotesque. Atop its status hotel-a clash of world's fair modern and imitation European traditional-a tired combo plays 1940s two-steps for well-oiled customers, who are served by aging waitresses in miniskirts...
...lunar sample on display is the show's big letdown. As might be expected, the stuff is displayed dramatically in the center of a dark room, seated atop a black plinth and bathed in a single spot-light. This display conjures up an image of a 21st century altar complete with priceless relic-or a showcase of industrial diamonds at Tiffany's. Unfortunately, the sample contains no more than a few grams of the gray dust, and without a microscope to reveal the amazing green, brown and white colors of the individual glass shards or the weird dumbell and spheroid...
...after the Crimson had taken a 13-0 lead, Holy Cross, with two first downs under its belt, started its first real drive of the day. Reserve quarterback Howie Burke, finding the Harvard line a bit too stubborn, the tiem short, and mindful of words from coach. Tom Yewcie atop the field, started to throw passes or semblances thereof...
...clear day, viewers atop New York's Empire State Building can see an area that is governed by 1,400 political units-states, cities, counties and townships, plus scores of special-purpose districts that control everything from airports to garbage. The U.S. has 80,000 such "governments," many of them created to focus efficiently on narrow problems. In pursuing their own interests, these bodies often worsen environmental problems, such as smog and dirty rivers, that cut across political boundaries, Responsibility is fragmented in a maze of separate, unequal and overlapping jurisdictions...