Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the leading designer in the fountain renaissance is Lawrence Halprin, 61, a freewheeling iconoclast who has opinions on the shape of cities, freeways (he thinks they should be sculptures in the cityscape) and water. In the city, he says, "water affects us in the same way as does a wild animal in a zoo, pacing back and forth in his cage, beautiful and quietly desperate, controlled but with implications of wild danger." Halprin's latest work is a cascade for Seattle's Freeway Park. Like Alph, Kubla Khan's sacred river, the Seattle cascade plunges through...
...riding down the freeway when I heard on the radio that this little place I'd never heard of was for sale, and the Lord made it known to me that this is where we should go and do his work. The "little place" that...
...emerged as the only national chronicler of grassroots America. In his weekly column, which appears in as many as 140 papers (among them: the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Boston Globe), he discusses such topics as local energy-conservation schemes, the unionization of public employees, a freeway-turned-park in Seattle and redlining in city neighborhoods. His stories can have wide impact. A column on Colorado's "sunset law," which requires a yearly re-evaluation of spending programs, prompted legislators in eight other states to introduce similar measures. Peirce also dispenses local anesthetic for painful civic problems through...
...appreciate the obstacles ahead for our new energy boss. The idea of energy conservation for many people is leaving the lights off at home and taking the dinosaur in the driveway out for a 70-m.p.h. spin on the freeway...
...killer in three other child murders. Mark Stebbins, 12, a quiet boy who lived with his divorced mother in Ferndale, was found in a parking lot on Feb. 19,1976, some 17 days after he had disappeared. The body of Jill Robinson, 12, was discovered Dec. 16 beside a freeway, four days after she was reported missing from her home in Royal Oak. Kristine Mihelich, a brown-haired, blue-eyed ten-year-old from nearby Berkley, vanished on Jan. 2. Her body turned up 18 days later in a roadside snowbank. These victims may all have been sexually molested...