Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctors urged Oscar Maynard, 67, to go to a nursing home after he suffered a stroke several months ago. Maynard refused, saying: "I'll be on my own, and I'll go where I want to go." Where Maynard wanted to go was to the simple brick home that he shares with his wife Essie, 63, on 25 acres of land. Says Maynard: "I'd rather be here than anyplace else in the world...
...CARPENTER CENTER is a bastard of a building, a concrete monolith flanked on all sides by the peculiar combination of colonialism and conservatism that makes up the Harvard red-brick style. The department it houses is another sort of aberration, grudgingly giving credit for work with paper, brushes, paint and wood instead of work with words...
...while later, a series of thundering explosions blew away a large portion of the four-story building, rattling houses for miles around. Immediately afterward, a ferocious blaze erupted; it raged for eight hours. No one was injured, but the $10 million factory was reduced to a heap of blackened brick and twisted metal. More than 900 people who had worked at the plant-the company's largest of several in the area-joined the unemployment rolls, already swollen in the Naugatuck Valley...
...clearly a man who knows his Munchkins. No witch doctor could have conjured up a more fantastical stewpot of sights for bored eyes. The tornado that sweeps Dorothy to Oz is a dancer whose headgear spouts 100 yards of black silk swirling to the rafters. The Yellow Brick Road is a quartet of lanky dudes in brilliant yellow brick-patterned tailcoats. An armor of beer cans and garbage cans makes the Tin Man. Originally scheduled not only to direct and costume the show but to do the choreography and play the Wiz as well, Holder had canceled out when...
...numbing wind swept in off the Charles across the MIT baseball diamond and buffeted against the big, red brick Heinz warehouse across the street, the Engineers appeared to be devising 57 ways to lose yesterday's ball game to Harvard...