Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nebraska, an acoustic bypass through the American heartland, sounds a little like a Library of Congress field recording made out behind some shutdown auto plant. Springsteen recorded these songs at home, on a four-track Teac tape deck, and meant them to be demos for material he could do with the E Street Band. But the songs seemed to stand best on their own, unadorned, and that is the way they appear in the album, with just a minimum of technical refinement. Beginning with the title track, a bone chiller about Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, the ten songs...
...Mongolia. Russian tanks, trucks; soldiers. Horsemen and gingerbread houses. Stand at window on, "yurt alert" (looking out for Mongolian round tents--yurts). Ulan Bator: Woman in traditional dress sees off granddaughter in cords with tape deck. Sunset across the grasslands...
...Jahn's winning landmark tapers to a large pinnacle topped by a spire. The corners surge to the top in five stepped leaps. The pinnacle will contain an observation deck and a rooftop restaurant. The building, turned 45° on its square site, has four lOO-ft.-high corner entrances that lead to a ten-story shopping and festival arcade...
...long ago, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, 40, swooped onto the aircraft carrier Midway in the Sea of Japan. As he settled on the flight deck in his A6, it occurred to him that the keel of that ship was laid a year after he was born. Now he was managing the Midway and her sister ships, helping to devise a new American defense. "I could go out and make money," he mused. But then, with great relish, he added: "It would not be one-tenth as much...
...indication of Harvard's current preoccupation with renovations came when Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 dropped by the Crimson building this summer for a visit. Emerging onto the sun-deck at 14 Plympton St.. the 6-ft. 7-inch administrator immediately hopped up on a narrow ledge to examine the Crimson's rather ancient roof. "It's in a lot better shape than most of the Houses," the dean said, shaking his head...