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...Seattle's Foster Junior-Senior High School, says Ralph Burkhard, "there are enough new things to hang a guy . . . But we based everything on how children would want to be treated." Daylight flows through photoelectrically controlled skylights, and this "provides new uses for window walls. Since they are not used for lighting, we have used them as display areas, with shelves for classroom exhibits." The school is heated through pipes under the floors, and plastic classroom ceilings are yellow to offset the grey Northwest skies. Furthermore, says Burkhard, "Foster is completely designed for earthquake resistance. You could empty...
...Monet began to go from his lovely and unprofitable beginnings to a fanatical and highly lucrative exploration of impressionism's end: the picturing of daylight, like a spangled web swathed about the world. With worldly success he lost the almost Flemish reticence that gives The Seine at Bougival halt its charm. Long before his death in 1926, the old man's gilded haystacks and mauve cathedrals became dated. But among the rich and often raw liqueurs of modern painting, his best work is still as refreshing as a long glass of sodawater, iced...
...spelunkers lower him slowly into the unknown. Below, he is often the sole inhabitant, except for eyeless white cockroaches and the like, of a world of stone, water and darkness. Claustrophobic terror can catch him, turn him hysterical. Finally, he has a couple of good chances of never seeing daylight again: a snapped cable or a landslide may leave him below forever. Why do they...
Next day 5,000 troops guarded the streets of Belfast as Her Majesty rode to the Hall of Parliament to hear an ancient and loyal address. As she walked in the sunny gardens of Queen's University, a second explosion came-this time in broad daylight at the city power station, about a mile away...
With a sound sense of drama, the festival managers arranged to have all performances held in the patios of the Alhambra. Afternoon events began in daylight and ended in evening shadows; after dark, discreetly situated floodlights illumined the cypresses and medieval arches...