Word: ells
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...cried The Stable Boy. “I’ve got it. It’s time to go.”“Wot?” squeaked Ollie from beneath three prostitutes. “Ew in the bloody ’ell is in’eruptin my intimate congress wif these gen’le ladies? I swear I will maim you wif my own two hands, I swear—”“Ollie,” said The Stable Boy. “It?...
Mayer says most of the inspiration for the project, which is expected to be completed next year, came "from outside of architectural terms. We jumped from mushrooms to trees to clouds." There's not a right angle in any of those. Like Antoni Gaud's Parc Gell in Barcelona, with its swelling plazas and ribboning pathways, the Parasol emerges from a place where architecture meets the unconscious, a source outside the merely rational faculties, one that gives rise to whatever is soft, concupiscent and shape-shifting...
...next 20 years we continue to shoot the bastards and hold on to every ell of the West Bank, we’re going to lose the majority...we’ll be a minority in an Arab state” Hertzberg responded...
Born in 1902 to wealthy and well-connected Barcelona family—his uncle, Güell, was the patron of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí—Sert would flee first from fascism in Spain and then again from Paris with the onset of World...