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After seeing Walt Disney's Mary Poppins for the first time, every American child between the ages of three and ten wants a nanny. Someone who doesn't need public transportation because she had her umbrella. Someone who hangs out with chimney sweeps. Someone who breaks into song every five minutes. Someone, in other words, who is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
Last Thursday morning John and Joy, accompanied by two policemen, sifted through the ashes for vestiges of their once comfortable life. The chimney, built to withstand as well as nurture fire, stood as a charred sentinel above the remains of the living room. Bending down, Joy retrieved two small vases that her six-year-old twins had made in a pottery class with her mother. The tears came quickly as she cradled the pieces of ceramic. "How could this happen?" she asked...
...nothing to do with Gaudi's," says the sculptor, 63. Although Gaudi left a 1911 sketch of the Passion facade, Subirachs changed the arrangement of the sculptures and added controversial touches like a macabre skull below the crucifix. He gave his Roman centurions helmets playfully copied from Gaudi-designed chimney pots on a nearby building. Subirachs denounces his critics as "hooligans, snobs." Ironically, Subirachs in 1965 signed a letter protesting the basilica's continuation. But when offered the sculptural commission, he changed his mind "because I was given complete freedom...
CHRISTMAS PARTY WITH EDDIE G. (Strikin' It Rich/Columbia). A Yuletide celebration for people who hope Santa gets stuck in the chimney. Funny, funky and often obscure rhythm classics to bounce you through -- or rescue you from -- all the seasonal goodwill...
Even from a distance, the grayish two-story home with panoramic windows and pointed chimney casts a distinctive profile against the suburban sky. But only a closer inspection reveals what is truly unique about this house. Instead of sporting bricks or aluminum siding, the dwelling is covered with superstrong, superdurable plastic panels. The shingles on its vaulted roof are made not of wood but of another tough plastic; so too, in fact, are the floors, doorframes, light fixtures, plumbing pipes and even the windows...