Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latter quotation can also be read as "Look at me. I am different. I don't like what other people like. Miss Sontag would debunk ice cream if she could find a publisher. She even comes out against truth...
...regimen greeted the 200,000 tourists who went north to Poland: the chill Baltic waters and harsh Hanseatic architecture of Sopot and Gdansk (formerly Danzig). In Warsaw, a city rebuilt after being 87% destroyed in World War II, they could bargain for paintings along the broad Nowy Swiat, drink ice-cold Wyborowa vodka at the Krokodyl, or simply stare at the Vistula when the city's drabness overcame them. Rumania stands in warm counterpoint-from the white sand beaches of Mamaia on the Black Sea, where 30 well-appointed new tourist hotels stand, to the clean, well-lighted...
...waterfall and fields of flowering forsythia and geraniums. In Kansas City, Mo., the theme was "A Circus of Flowers," with a candy-striped circus tent summoning up a gay, summer air. For the opening of Cleveland's 23rd show, neither blizzards nor bone-chilling winds sweeping off of ice-covered Lake Erie could deter 18,000 hardy hobbyists. And in Detroit, while huge blocks of ice floated down the river near by, the crowds packed so tightly into cavernous Cobo Hall that the fire marshal finally had to bar the doors...
...home-town Huskies of Michigan Technological University take on Minnesota of the Big Ten for the second time in two days. Perched on window casings and rafters, the fans screamed "Hit 'em! Hit 'em!" and amused themselves by hurling nickels, dimes, and even a firecracker onto the ice - until the announcer begged them to stop "because our boys could get hurt, too." When Tech won 5-4, they trooped off to the Ambassador Grille to toast the victory...
Today's buildings often present sleek, bland exteriors which give the impression that about all that could be going on inside is the manufacture of ice cubes. In the hands of a master such as Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (TIME, Feb. 11), glass-and-steel space containers can be very high style indeed, but too often the result is anonymity and monotony. To work their way out of this impasse, some architects now think that they have found the solution right in the heart of the building itself. They are designing buildings that 1) make...