Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nova is not content merely to wag its finger. Having identified the problems, the program suggests solutions-and sounds a tocsin. In Switzerland, a country with one-tenth the fire-casualty rate of the U.S., the show notes, chimney sweeps are required to clean and inspect every building regularly. "Many say that Americans would not tolerate the rules and regulations and residential inspections of the Swiss," viewers are advised. "Americans, it seems, would rather burn.'' -By Philip Faflick
...such a new world, reaching to the far horizon without break of tree or chimney stack: just sky and grass and grass and sky....The hush was so loud. As I lay in my unplastered upstairs room, the heavens seemed nearer than ever before and awe and beauty and mystery over...
...size of a locomotive headlight and a fine-looking Stetson. He and the 23 other members of the Cowboy Artists of America are having a show and sale at the Phoenix Art Museum. Beeler and John Hampton, who was born in New York City-dropped down the wrong chimney by the stork, he says-and two other men founded the group back in 1965 to tip the odds on Western art in the direction of survival. Last year the 14th annual sale brought in over $870,000, but this year the cowboys hope to make real money. They...
...might be able to detect some remote Fauve echo-perhaps through Albert Marquet, whose work he saw in Paris-in Hopper's fondness for relieving a low-toned background with a sudden distant poke of primary color: a coat, a flag or the red side of a brick chimney...
...than grammar schooling in Cambridge; it was not until 1648 that a public school opened here. Located on Crooked St. (now Holyoke St.) across from the present site of the Hasty Pudding Club, the two-story stone building boasted "gable end-s...wrought in battlement fashion," and a "broad chimney on one side, of stone and brick, (which) gave promise of a generous fireplace within." The school's first master, Elijah Corlett, wore a wig and doublet while he taught his pupils--almost exclusively boys looking forward to entering Harvard. The first school moved repeatedly, finally emerging as the Washington...