Word: brickly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FROM A DISTANCE, Larsen Hall looks like a single, enormous brick. The building, which squats on a small parcel adjacent to Radcliffe Yard, is not in fact one brick, but thousands of them, piled humorlessly on top of one another. A couple of windows, arranged with all the logic of key-punch holes, break through the clay curtain, but they are aberrations. This building says BRICKS and little else. No one listens...
...protest that both spoke of frustration and a sense of enveloping helplessness. Silver-haired Chicago Businessman William H. Hoyerman, 55, walked outside the red brick entrance of his truck-body plant, General Body Co., and lowered the American flag to half-mast. He then sent letters to his suppliers and customers, exhorting them to do the same. Said he: "Let us fly our flags at half-mast in mourning for the millions of employees and businesses like ourselves, who are being hurt by high interest rates...
...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...
...failed Utopia. In its place, though more visible on the drawing boards than the streets, there is something some observers have conveniently named "post-modernism." But is that a movement, a style or just a journalistic label? The walls of the labyrinth, made of paper as much as brick, shift and recompose themselves erratically...
...fact, as Reynolds walks the streets of New York and through Central Park in his black trenchcoat, carrying a brief case and the morning paper, he seems just as he was in Starting Over, when he frequented the brick sidewalks of Beacon Street and perused the wares of Quincy Market in a brown London Fog. This is not to say, however, that Paternity equals the successes of Starting Over. Though the new film is enjoyable, inventive, occasionally very funny and emotionally-arousing, Starting Over was all that and much more so. Paternity suffers for lack of the romantic electricity that...