Word: exteriorizer
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...committee called the building an "outstanding example of a disciplined approach to architecture." It particularly praised the "brightly colored interiors" of the library, which reflect the "liveliness of Brattle Street and reinforce the immediate urban pattern." The committee concluded that the building "fulfills its interior functions and its exterior responsibilities...
...SHACK is small and smells strongly of fish. Its white exterior stands starkly against the horizon. Inside, the room is bare except for a wooden chair and an ancient refrigerator left over from an era when it was still called an "icebox...
Some of the dumpyard creations are startling in their originality. They cling to treetops, hug mountainsides and nestle in wooded ravines. They offer a hodgepodge of winding exterior stairways, overhanging balconies and thatched roofs with soaring pitches. The interiors are equally daring. Polished steam engines serve as stoves; old windshields make unorthodox solariums. In fact, these houses have everything but the basics. The bathroom is often an outhouse. Electricity and central heating are rare. But there is more to life than utilities, or so say the owner-builders, who value the karma of self-expression over the convenience of plumbing...
...these opportunities come to bad ends because Christian's outrage keeps breaking through his overcourteous exterior. He tells off brand-new widows who complain about their dead husbands' makeup. He is too quick with his fists, which are surprisingly effective. Yet Donleavy's New Yorkers are thorough professionals, blunt and disturbingly honest about their own illusions. Unfortunately, Donleavy is rather slippery about his own illusions. The city, he seems to be saying (especially when he pumps his prose full of Celtic twilight), is no place for a wandering Christian...
Beneath the impressive exterior, however, was shoddiness. A 1957 investigation revealed a number of building violations by contractors attempting to cut corners; residents were constantly plagued by rats and cockroaches. As the years passed, the Point decayed from lack of maintenance. Crime rose disproportionately to the city...