Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INSIDE THE HIGH BRICK WALLS OF THE SUBURBAN Indianapolis prison he will call home for the next six years, Mike Tyson's sixth week of incarceration brought him some of the bleakest news yet: his once enormous fortune may be depleted, leaving the ex-champ nearly broke...
...than the discussion of direct gain and thermal performance. The whole first floor of the house was one open living area, from bedroom to kitchen, and a fireplace rises from the center of the room. The fireplace and chimney are a twisting, trunk-like work of masonry, made of brick with veins of rocks cutting through. Picture an old gnarled oak tree, substitute brick and stone for the wood, and you have an idea what the fireplace looks like...
...rasa: Red Square on May Day, the occasion formerly dedicated to the workers of the world. Fortune 500 corporations have received a price list which sets $1 million as the space rate for plastering the whole square with product slogans and billboards, or $500,000 for just the red brick Kremlin wall. "This will be the first official celebration of the new Russia," the ITAR-TASS news agency said in its announcement of the ad sale. "Have your day but bring dollars...
...must be the first with strong whiffs of deliberate irony and in-your-face perversity. The Red Cross, of all people, has erected one of the edgiest, most bizarro world pavilions of all, with red steel I beams shooting past thin white metal uprights at queer angles, red brick walls zigzagging crazily. Deconstructivism, a fading fad, has found its perfect project not a moment too soon: according to an Expo spokeswoman, the architecture is an allusion to the Red Cross's role in assisting victims of earthquakes...
Some officials attributed the enthusiasm of the community to the original Cantabrigian immigrant Irish community which built St. Paul's church by donating one dollar a week per family to pay for each brick of the building. "All participants have come together in a great way to produce a beginning," said Boles. "The people of Cambridge historically come form very poor people. They have sympathy because they know what it is to be poor...