Word: bricked
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...paper or sets for Sean Connery. Some got built. Ricardo Porro is a Cuban architect who for a while enthusiastically served Fidel Castro but eventually emigrated to Paris. The Mori show includes a slide presentation of his two most important works: a pair of art schools constructed of brick and terra-cotta outside Havana in the early '60s, sensual structures based on repeated Catalan arches. But before they could be completed, Porro fell under suspicion for his bourgeois background and his Expressionist style. Funding was withdrawn and the projects left uncompleted. In the name of socialism, the revolution turned...
...more control," said one woman, comparing it with the Anthology version. On the downside, Flashback has more than 75% fewer games than Anthology, and its cheap-feeling joystick was hard to maneuver. Even in Breakout, where you just hit a ball with a paddle in order to demolish a brick wall, it was impossible to glide the paddle smoothly from one side of the screen to the other. More problematic was Flashback's rendition of Adventure, in which you must find a golden chalice and take it to a castle. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
...downside, Flashback has more than 75% fewer games than Anthology, and its cheap-feeling joystick was hard to maneuver. Even in Breakout, where you just hit a ball with a paddle in order to demolish a brick wall, it was impossible to glide the paddle smoothly from one side of the screen to the other...
...like a Jaws moment," Beran says. As the first giant wave bore down, two Thai coast guard boats in the bay suddenly shot into the air. The couple ran for their lives, hurdling barefoot over rough ground and fences while the wall of water chased them. They scaled a brick wall and joined 10 others on the roof of a house until it collapsed, hurling them into 5-m-deep water for nearly two hours. Spraggon went under several times. "We grabbed onto some branches of a tree and tried to hug the tree until the water receded," Beran says...
...from a series of parties, and there will be a pause in the conversation, and you will look up at your roommates and be blindsided by your love for them; or you will be walking down the street, talking, and look up at the blue of winter sky over brick; or you will be eating in dining hall and the conversation will run on, absurdity piling on absurdity, as though by some momentum of its own. It was one of those moments born of the forced intimacy of college, an intimacy unique and bizarre and at times heartbreakingly lovely...