Word: brickly
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...CRACK has appeared in the beseiged brick facade of Massachusetts Hall. The fault is a narrow one, but it is more than wide enough to engulf President Derek C. Bok's carefully argued and heretofore intransigent investment policy...
...incinerating one instantaneously and then--boom!--vaulting on to the next. In the end, some 1,000 fire fighters were powerless to stop it. Fueled by a variety of industrial-use chemicals stored in the structures, the fire consumed wooden flooring as though it were paper and blasted through brick walls, sweeping to residences in an adjacent neighborhood. By nightfall, said Police Lieut. Richard Wolak, the stricken area looked like "four blocks of flames...
...University. He considers the school his most enduring monument, and last year put $30 million into its administration and $10 million into new construction. "There it is," he said delightedly as the college came into view. He drove along the winding mountain roads, proudly pointing out the low, tan brick school buildings. He stopped by the auditorium. "Almost every Cabinet officer has spoken here," he said. "And Reagan, Bush, Ted Kennedy, Jack Kemp." His great pride was obvious and understandable...
Each workday morning at 9, outside a red brick building in Crewe, England, a Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit waits, washed and polished, for three people. As they are chauffeured deep into the Cheshire countryside, the passengers quiz the driver about the car, watch the passing hedgerows or simply sink blissfully into the leathery smells. After 60 circuitous miles, they return to the building and take a lingering look as the $98,000 sedan collects three more of Rolls' 3,800 employees for the pleasure trip they are entitled to under company policy. "I knew I'd ride in a Rolls...
...however, the core of St. Louis is being redeemed for real. The Old Post Office, a grand Second Empire concoction, has been converted to shops and offices. Louis Sullivan's 1891 Wainwright Building, a prototypical skyscraper, was saved and refurbished. Laclede's Landing, nine cobblestoned blocks of 19th century brick commercial buildings, is suddenly thick with stores and boites...