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...show outside Santiago when an invisible force seemed to seize and shake him. In Santiago's Hipodromo, 3,000 racing fans fled in panic as the grandstand roof heaved and cracked. Terrified swimmers in the open-air pool of the Hotel Carrera watched the water suddenly leap in foot-high waves. Three blocks away, cornices peeled off the Supreme Court and Congress buildings and rained down on the street...
Children are in fact the most excellent and obvious reason for the trend. Dr. and Mrs. John Mumma of Bellingham, Wash., have nine, but there is plenty of running, jumping, dancing and shouting room in their magnificent 1903 mansion. The 30-foot-high ballroom is now more of a gym than anything else, but, says Mumma, "it will pay for itself through eight home weddings for the girls." The three children of Harvard Professor Jean-Claude Martin were comfortable in a six-room house, but they are blooming in the 17-room baroque relic of the 1870s that he bought...
Never has a pinkie been crooked with more elaborate Lahr-di-da, or sexagenarian toes been more agile in the choreography of cowardice. In one panic, Lahr scrambles halfway up the proscenium arch and hangs there, glaring down in 20-foot-high dudgeon at the scoundrels who have treed him. Throughout the musical, he emits those lecherous gurgles, dying squawks and goosy yelps that used to be the cheek-in-tongue counterpoint to vaudeville, and burlesque. What makes Lahr the king of clowns is, above all, his masterly word-and-action timing, as when he off-handedly tosses...
Ramses built the larger temple in his own honor. The four 65 foot-high colossi hewn from the cliff depict him; the has reliefs that line the chambers burrowing deep into the cliff behind them illustrate his triumphs. The pharaoh built many temples to himself, but only at Abu Simbel did dignity triumph over the vulgarity of profuse ornamentation...
Despite Le Corbusier's grand conception, the Unite d'Habitation has been only a partial success. The apartments, arranged as duplexes, have 15-foot-high living rooms opening on four-foot-deep balconies. But, the bedrooms are very narrow--only 13-feet for the master bedroom and a scant six-feet for children's rooms and both kitchens and bathrooms are windowless. The arrangment has brought criticism on the grounds that it is cramped and lacks privacy...