Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Harvard has not allowed Pei to discuss the new plans for the library, sources said last week that the new proposal will include two completely separate scaled-down buildings, to be constructed in brick to conform with the pattern established by surrounding Harvard Houses...
...brick Hortonville Community School, Sheriff Calvin Spice and eight of his Outagamie County deputies sat in unmarked patrol cars, watching striking teachers walk the picket line. As cars of newly hired, strikebreaking teachers arrived, the pickets clustered around and taunted them with cries of "Scabby!" and "Traitor!" Said Sheriff Spice: "Nothing has happened yet, but a lot of people are afraid that it might...
Columnar Thighs. Here are the classic bolts of melody: Judy Garland traveling the yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz; the unfinished face of Frank Sinatra apostrophizing Manhattan in On the Town; Fred Astaire, the world's most sophisticated stick figure, dancing on the ceiling in Royal Wedding; Gene Kelly's soaking-wet aria in Singin'in the Rain...
Alternative Voice. The short, wiry Troy runs the Observer from an old red brick bungalow in Oklahoma City, three blocks from the capitol. Though he prints a few articles from unpaid contributors, he fills most of the twelve-page paper himself. His wife (and co-publisher) Helen keeps the books and stuffs papers into mailing envelopes at their modest suburban home. He often warns subscribers to "worry about a newspaper when it earns enough for the publisher to join the country club." That is not something that Troy's readers need fear. The Observer lost $18,000 during...
When the Library Corporation announced earlier this month that the monumental 85-foot-high glass pyramid would be replaced by a lower-slung brick museum, community groups attacked the move as a "cosmetic" change. They said the alteration in the museum was designed only to save money without cutting down the square footage--or the scale--of the museum itself. In addition, critics claimed architect I.M. Pei's separation of the library complex into two buildings was a small concession to professors who did not want tourists tramping down their ivy-covered hallways...