Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vaughan, is "classics and could-be classics." The remainder of the season will see productions of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, and Robert Ardrey's Shadow of Heroes. The theater is housed in the white brick and thermopane 800-seat Seattle Center Playhouse built for last year's World's Fair. And people can still whisk out there from downtown, if they like, by monorail...
...flags hanging in front of the brick final clubs were all at half-mast, and in Freedom Square a "Poonie told a friend he had just sent someone to buy two flags for the Castle...
...Brick Wall. In Argentina's recent election campaign, Illia's People's Radicals called for annulment of the contracts, arguing that they were signed without congressional approval, and therefore illegal. Private oilmen contended that the contracts were signed in good faith, felt that they deserved a chance to renegotiate, or at least make a fair settlement...
...matters came to a head, Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman flew to Buenos Aires to see Illia, and later told U.S. oilmen: "I ran into the same thing you fellows did-a brick wall." At week's end Illia signed the blanket decrees. In them there was only a slight hint of renegotiation or indemnification, and in fact, it was asserted that the companies owed some $80 million in back taxes...
...buildings they were usually known for. Philip Johnson lives in a severe bachelor glass house in Connecticut, the kind of place beloved by House Beautiful. But in designing for Yale a new science complex on Pierson-Sage Square, Johnson surprised everyone by designing a turreted architecture of burnt umber brick and purplish Longmeadow stone that reflects the sullen soil of the area. So far he has finished the $3,500,000 Kline Geology Laboratory, a medieval keep whose slit windows admit daylight willy-nilly-and which one Yale Corporation member dryly describes as "solid as rock and functional...