Word: gapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bits & Pieces. Last week, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology celebrated :he centennial of its founding as the Army Medical Museum, tourists still admired an Sickles' leg. They could also gape at a lock of Lincoln's hair, a bone sliver from his skull, and bullet-shattered vertebrae from Assassin John Wilkes Booth and President James A. Garfield. But pathology, the study of disease processes, has far outgrown the two rear rooms above the Riggs Bank that first housed the Army Medical Museum. The institute, which is a combined effort of all three armed forces, now serves...
...thousand East Berliners who regularly commuted to West Berlin were now cut off from their jobs by official decree. At the city's two biggest squares where East once met West, bustling Potsdamer Platz and the soaring sandstone Brandenburg Gate, thousands of East and West Berliners gathered to gape and to jeer at the scowling Communist troops gripping submachine guns and standing shoulder to shoulder beside a solid phalanx of armored cars. When the crowd moved too close, there was the jab of a Communist bayonet or a sudden blast from the powerful Wasserkanonen (water cannons), the wheeled squirters...
According to Prior, the Church of England "hardly touches what we know as the working class," and this social gap has strong political overtones; he says that the gape came about largely because the Church in the beginning of this century refused to work for the social justice of the working class and instead turned to more condescending charity. No amount of soup kitchens and psalms, "nothing short of a real spiritual revival," could bring social unity to the church...
...riotously flamboyant styles that range from borscht-belt baroque to Coney Island modern. With exaggeration that verges on caricature, he splashes his hotels with colorful bordello opulence that offends traditionalists, flabbergasts sophisticates and often delights the uninitiated. Lapidus takes pride in the fact that he gives people "something to gape at.'' In fact, he calls his arced, 565-room Fontainebleau a "tasteful three-ring circus." But the star turn among his hotels is the $17 million Americana, which he designed right down to the bellhops' uniforms. In the lobby of the hotel is a glass-enclosed terrarium...