Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That decision did not come easily. Uninterested in going into his father's soda-fountain equipment business and intrigued by the "tough traditions" of the Marines, he had signed up fresh out of his suburban Detroit high school. He served first as a base electrician at Camp Lejeune, N.C., then was transferred to El Toro in 1973 to work on fighter planes - F-4s, A6s, Harriers. He switched to his present assignment...
...mother Rose, Joan Copeland is a fountain of humor, a river of love, and a rock of survival, despite occasional attacks of frayed nerves. Perhaps Miller's real time machine is memory and its curving flight into the distant past of one's fledgling manhood...
...architecture of the poor"?by Greek villages, which he had visited, by Moorish souks, which he had not, but had studied in books. Most of all, he fell in love in with the walled, closed-in Arab garden, animated and cooled by the splash of a fountain or stilled by a pool, whose apotheosis he found in the marvelous intricacies of Spain's Alhambra...
...each of Barragán's designs his public spaces achieve that degree of serenity which only flowing or still water can bestow. In Las Arboledas, developed as a residential community for horse lovers, he installed fountains, pools and a brimming watering trough as long as a lake, whose still surface reflects the thickly set eucalyptus trees. In another subdivision devoted to horsemen, Barragán converted two abandoned horse troughs into a heroically scaled fountain: a massive red earth stucco wall carries an aqueduct that pours water into the pool, all set off by a long pink stucco wall that makes...
Marvy is a substantial, pink-faced man with a sandy mustache and a booming voice. He has three Dutch Masters cigars and a ballpoint pen in the breastpocket of his suit. But it isn't hard to change the ballpoint to a fountain pen, erase a few facial lines and see him as a 25-year-old self-employed salesman, striding into a two-chair barber shop in some one-horse Minnesota town. "Keep up with the times," he would say, unpacking samples of Tiger Root and Pinaud's Lilac Vegetal. "Look to the future. Have a cigar...