Word: cluster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to covering events on the slopes and rinks, TIME Staff Writer Philip Taubman explored Innsbruck's Olympic Village, a cluster of high-rise apartment buildings, shops and dining facilities that serves as home for some 2,000 participants and coaches at the Winter Games. His report...
...fall of 1974, NBC decided to replace its timeworn symbols, the rainbow-plumed peacock and the cursive cluster of letters known affectionately as "the snake." The network retained Lippincott & Margulies, a Manhattan firm specializing in corporate facelifts. After 14 months, at a cost estimated to be as high as $750,000, L. & M. produced an abstract N composed of two trapezoids, one red, one blue. NBC is now emblazoning the N on cameras, microphones, stationery, packaging, uniforms, and office walls. Probable total cost: another couple of million...
...refugee children. He took a leaf from his childhood-an older sister had raised the eight other children after his mother died-and built the first in a series of "S O S villages" that now care for 15,000 orphans round the world. Every village consists of a cluster of houses, each presided over by a foster mother who cares for eight to ten orphans. They grow up as a family, even attending local schools. Gmeiner asks his foster mothers not to marry lest their commitment become divided. In turn, he has remained unmarried...
Inside, the Paradise Cafe is cramped and dim, furnished with an erratic array of small wooden and linoleum-topped tables. There's a juke box pressed against the front wall that a cluster of waifs and their serene elders stray in to dance around. The bar is on the periphery of Central Square, fairly close to MIT, and it's frequented by locals, mostly, with a sprinkling of students. From the stools under the television a string of posters of the likes of Tiny Tim, W.C. Fields and Jack Palladine is visible, although it is hidden from the opposite side...
...less ferocious version of Joe Cocker), and clowned around with the other members of the group, especially saxophonist Clarence Clemmons and guitarist "Miami Steve" Van Zandt. Dressed in matching broad-lapelled white suits, black shirts, and white fedoras (the kind of outfits you see on men who wear ruby cluster pinky rings) Clemmons and Van Zandt looked like bouncers at an Atlantic City nightclub who wouldn't want to let the likes of Springsteen in. The energy level was high throughout the show: most of his songs are individual jewels of energetic rock and roll, and Springsteen kept them coming...