Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inexcusable that the Radcliffe Yearbook does not contain even one picture of the exterior of a Radcliffe building--not the Fay House gate nor Agassiz nor even a dormitory. And while the faculty is certainly a vital part of a Radcliffe education, devoting one-fifth of the total pages to the professors seems a bit over-generous...
...From International Swimming Pool Corp. (1958 sales: $12 million) this year has come a line of pools built above ground. Priced from $2,995 to $4,995, the pools consist of a thin, vinyl plastic sheet stretched over a plywood-and-steel frame that is supported by a Redwood exterior. The pools, named after Company President Esther Williams, are movable...
Sick, Sick, Sick is for the most part realistic, personal, homely; cast in monologue (interior and exterior) and dialogue; set largely in offices, coffee houses, bars, apartments. But in Passionella, the shy young men, the pony-tailed girls, the woman who sings folksongs "in the original ethnic," the man who says, "What I wouldn't give to be a conformist like all those others," are replaced by a "friendly neighborhood godmother come [by way of a television set] to bring you the answer to your most cherished dreams," and by little Munro, who was drafted into the army...
Finally, Elias Kulukundis publishes The Gold Girl, a story which demonstrates a fine talent for telling neatly and quickly an arresting yarn. The subject of the piece the narrator, becomes involved, over the telephone, with a fantasy girl who sheds her anonymity but cannot pierce his almost inhuman exterior. Initially, the telephonic association of the pair seems implausible because it is such an appalling coincidence. Yet as she herself emerges as the subject of her own fantasy, the elements of the tale fall tidily into place, leaving the cold sensation of hard and real characters existing only as shatterproof shells...
...France's famed Le Corbusier, who considered it his finest "machine for living,'' it is raised on pilotis (stilts), has gently inclined ramps leading from the ground to the sun deck. Interior space is so arranged that sunlight floods the open areas behind its cubist exterior, and once prompted the owners to call it Les Heures Claires (Clear Hours). The Germans looted it during World War II, and the cost of rehabilitation was estimated at $80,000. The aging, widowed Madame Pierre Savoye decided not to spend the money, never moved back. Unlivable in its dilapidated condition...