Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Airport near Washington, D.C., which opens for business next year, was a mobile lounge, an innovation credited to Eero Saarinen that should make plane waiting a bit more pleasant. After checking in at the ticket counter, the passenger goes to the proper loading gate, which is really the wide doorway into the lounge. The lounge (54 ft. long, 17½ ft. high and 16 ft. wide) has comfortable chairs, tinted windows, piped-in music and air conditioning. At take-off time, it is driven to the waiting plane parked on the runway. The lounge ramp is fitted to the door...
...chair at the right angle, good for catching the hems of dresses, lovely for scarring kneecaps, gouging table legs, and catching falling babies in the eye. Not to mention that those protuberances will be the first thing the movers will manage to hit the newly painted doorway with, damaging both door and way and chair...
...again aloud. His persistent awkwardness in phrasing is well illustrated by the following passage from Song of a Traveller: Spring, which in Philadelphia is wild./Is not in Boston yet. Like a stubborn child/Who will not curtsey to the lady she thinks a witch,/Spring cowers in Boston's doorway to stamp and bitch...
...thoroughly superior piece of entertainment, thanks to Actor Guinness. It is amazing how this shy. soft man can transform himself-with a hank of hair, a dab of rouge and an almost imperceptible modulation of his India-rubber personality-into a roaring extravert, all man and a doorway wide...
...next day the mob came back for more. From balconies and rooftops, demonstrators showered roof tiles and bricks on the advancing lines of police. Leather-jacketed young men hurled Molotov cocktails, which burst into flowers of orange flame and clouds of oily smoke. In a doorway a young girl, her eyes streaming from tear gas, screamed at the police: "Executioners!" Dangerous but disorganized the mob fought furiously, but with an aimless fury born of frustration...