Word: circulars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prestige--the big circular driveway with the BMW parked in front says...
...when a road sign clearly says Manhattan and the computer says something else, we forget to rely on our common sense. All of a sudden we're lost in the slums of the Bronx at 11 p.m. For the next 10 minutes the little green arrow mockingly charts our circular course...
...days all the tunnels and shafts had to be dug with pick, shovel and explosives--backbreaking work. Now there are circular drills mounted on caterpillar treads, which lurch forward chewing at the soft rock, making a hellish racket that changes to a shrill glass-crunching scream when the teeth hit a pocket of "potch" (the gray waste near opal that runs in veins through the matrix). These drills are 4 ft. in diameter, and they create vaults in the tunnel roofs--beautiful, arched Romanesque spaces cut in the creamy pink-veined stone. It is troglodyte architecture: dense, theatrical and intensely...
Pennypacker's central circular staircase is agreat place for congregating. And people do.Bright landings of "The Pack" are full of peopleat all hours, and a four story beer funnel makesand appearance on its open stairwell once a yearor so. Pennypacker's rooms are not massive, buttheir quirky shapes offer a change of pace fromthe standard Yard dorms...
Hurlbut residents--who call their dorm "theButt"--live in "pods;" huge circular common roomswith singles branching off of them. Most ofHurlbut's oddly-shaped rooms are comfortable andin good repair...