Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first thing one notices is that the tarnished orange girders left behind on that Harvard-Yale Saturday in November have become a brick and concrete box imposing on the soggy baseball outfield...
Buddhist Renaissance. The heart of the institute, which fills the top floor of a 70-year-old red brick building, is a huge meditation room that doubles as a dance studio. Here, seated on red cushions, the students and the mainly Buddhist staff meditate for 26 hours weekly. "It is purely voluntary," explains Jeremy Hay ward, a Cambridge University physicist who is now Naropa's vice president. "But we nearly all do it. Meditation is the key." Otherwise there are few Eastern trappings: no beads, bells, robes, incense or even long hair. Says Ron Greathead, 33, a drama student...
...room brick school has an "extended day" program enabling working parents to drop their children off as early as 7:30 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m. After regular classes, special instruction is provided in ballet, gymnastics, cooking and other fields. Amy stays late three days a week for Spanish lessons...
Urban Machine. To the chagrin of some Parisians, the competition was won by two foreigners, Italy's Renzo Piano and Britain's Richard Rogers. In the midst of Beaubourg's crumbling brick and mortar, they proceeded to construct what they called a "living urban machine." They planned a six-story building to be formed literally inside out -structural supports on the outside, along with a formidable array of ducts, gantries, movable mezzanines and color-coded pipes for heating, electricity, air conditioning and fire control. Attached to one external facade is a huge escalator with transparent walls, illustrating...
...Ford asked Karsh to get in touch the next time he visits Palm Springs, Calif., where the Fords have decided to spend their retirement. They sold their four-bedroom, colonial-style residence in Alexandria, Va., last week to an Iranian-born realtor for $137,000. Ford had built the brick and clapboard house for $34,000 in 1955. The resale price reflected not simply improvements and normal appreciation in value but also, as the buyer acknowledged, the fact that Gerald R. Ford had slept there for almost 19 years...