Word: cots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frisbee sailed slowly over the head of Margaret R. Cowperthwaite '79 and settled down next to the cot where she was sleeping. Across Radcliffe Yard, the shouts from an all-out game of badminton awakened a half-dozen other sleepers. They sat up to watch the sunrise over Byerly Hall and the motley army of jobseekers parked in front of it. It was 5:30 on Tuesday morning, and the crowd knew that Byerly's doors would not open for another three hours...
...local AFL-CIO labor council, which has called for a general strike if the bargaining breaks down. Scearce's arrival so greatly cheered Moscone that he finally left his city hall office, where he had been subsisting on coffee and takeout Chinese food, sleeping on a cot, and whiling away late-night hours in marathon blackjack games with aides. City hall itself had been without heat during the strike, and there was no hot water in the shower just off Moscone's office. With federal help on the scene, the mayor felt that he could in good conscience...
...provincial beginnings often confer a certain intensity on painters. The eye becomes obsessive, prehensile. Sanchez Cotán was a cloistered monk who never went outside Spain-but his Bodegon of vegetables (see color overleaf) is one of the most remarkable still-lifes ever painted. Each form-the ribbed curves of the cardoon stalks, the fleshy convolutions of the hanging cabbage, the ragged lace of the lettuce-is rendered with breathtaking economy. The picture is a lesson in ideal vegetarian geometry, with the slice of lemon and the slender cones of carrots occupying space like Renaissance mathematical models...
...They are paper architecture inhabiting imaginary space. How, one wonders, could they prepare a student for design in the real world? Yet they did, for the "real world" of 19th century French architecture was very different from today's. To us, architecture means anything built, from a cot tage to a town. But in France, l'architecture was the design of large public buildings, usually erected by the state...
...garden. In the center of the room, where it belongs as a major bone of contention, is a large double bed. I am reminded of the blooper committed by a TV announcer promoting the showing of the play's film version: "See Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in a Cot on a Hot Tin Roof." No, it's got to be a double...