Word: barriere
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...high costs, put a premium on smaller rooms, lower ceilings, cheaper materials. And the modern vogue for the light and glassy rather than the solid and massive, says Acoustical Engineer Leo Beranek, seems to be based "not on function but on poetry. Spaces are not isolated, but continue without barrier through glass, grilles and gardens. But continuous structures and the open plan are inimical to quiet living." From one room to another flow the sounds of whirring mixers, juicers and garbage grinders, babbling radios and television sets, humming refrigerators and air conditioners. The air conditioner's metallic threnody...
...most Westerners, the Berlin Wall is a brutal monument to Communism's need to imprison its subjects. Not to Walter Ulbricht. Last week East Germany's Red boss, after studiously ignoring the first four anniversaries of the ugly barrier that divides the city, openly celebrated its fifth birthday with a speech that made one wonder why he had not erected it years before. The Wall, orated Ulbricht, had 1) "saved the peace"; 2) proved the West "impotent"; 3) signified, by its unopposed erection, Allied recognition of the German status quo; 4) established "law and order" in East Germany...
...gimmicky bullfighter. His moves in the ring all attempt to place the bull in a situation where Miguelin can execute one of his two favorite tricks, that of patting the bull on the head and that of executing passes at close range while seated on the ring barrier. This kind of stereotyped strategy may please a sensation-seeking crowd, but it is not the art that bullfighting can be. The old-style matador, by contrast, constantly innovated to suit the particular bull he was fighting...
...today's academician is off to dispense advice to a foreign government, finish a book in the splendor of the English countryside, burrow in the site of an ancient ruin, or pursue his research to tropical Islands, glacial lakes, laboratory ships, remote capitals or perhaps even the Great Barrier Reef...
Another ancient barrier of suspicion between Roman Catholics and Protestants seems about to fall: the distrust of one another's sacraments. Catholics have historically refused to acknowledge the validity of such Protestant spiritual acts as ordination, confirmation and celebration of the Eucharist, although they do not question Protestant baptisms or marriages.* In the current issue of the in terdenominational Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Dutch Jesuit Frans Josef van Beeck, 36, finds a basis for arguing that Catholics can give full credit and validity to any or all of the Protestant spiritual acts...