Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale released its plans for the two new colleges, it was clear that Saarinen had indeed turned his back on modern architecture's shibboleth of repetition, regularity and smooth surfaces. Instead, Saarinen had produced two irregular structures of crescents and courts built of earthy, monolithic masonry. For the exterior walls, he devised a method of rubblestone construction that would do away with expensive hand labor. Stones varying in size from three to eight inches are placed in wood forms; then cement mortar is pumped in through hoses. Before the cement has completely set, the wall surface is hosed...
...murmur into microphones which they hold before them. At the front of the room, tape recorders whirl; an instructor watches them and occasionally twists dials to discover how his proteges are fairing in their strange new world of a foreign tongue. The entire scene contrasts with the grim, grey exterior of the building; the lab itself is bright, cheering, and more like 1984 than 1859. And, at last, language teaching at the College has caught up with the twentieth century...
When the actual structure began going up, its exterior proved too much for many critics as well, was dubbed "the snail," an "indigestible hot cross bun," a "wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an inverted oatmeal dish." Wright fired back: "It's going to make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level...
Inevitably, Karachi's male students find their eyes wandering from their books to the spectacle of coeds decked out in tight sweaters and fetching modifications of the Pakistani woman's traditional baggy trousers. Worse yet, despite their exterior modernization, the girls remain shy and reserved, tend to move across campus in tittering groups, like schools of fish. Reeling after them in an agony of frustration, the boys gather outside the "ladies' common room" to giggle, guffaw, whistle and ogle...
...underwater sound communication). Then Penguin lowered a diving bell. Of the four men who rode it down to 300 ft., only one was inside; three were skindivers with backpacks of Scuba gear, and they hitched a ride on the bell, for speed and safety, by clinging to its exterior...