Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million Marina City, which is rising into the sky alongside the Chicago River. Built around two eyecatching, 65-story cylinders, the multipurpose development will have 896 medium-rent apartments, plus a 16-story office building, a 1,700-seat theater, a 1,000-car garage, boat dock, swimming pool, ice rink and even a sculpture garden...
...Block of Ice. For the next 17 hours, taking turns reading their 100,000-word opinion, which has been four months in the writing, the judges explained why. Eichmann was found guilty on all 15 counts (crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, war crimes, and membership in Nazi organizations) because, far from being "a puppet in the hands of others, he was among those who pulled the strings . . . This block of ice . . . this block of marble . . . closed his ears to the voice of his conscience, as was demanded of him by the regime to which he was wholeheartedly...
Motor inns are cheaper to build (relatively fewer and more modest public rooms) and cheaper to run. With the savings, most new downtown motor inns can offer such added conveniences as a swimming pool, instant coffeemakers in the rooms, and free laundry machines. And if ice is needed for drinks, there is always a serve-yourself ice machine in a nearby corridor...
...absurd with its basic theme. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a fierce but motiveless contest, and Shlink tries to sum it up: "If you crammed a ship full of human bodies till it burst, the loneliness inside it would be so great that they would turn to ice . . . so great is our isolation that even conflict is impossible." Although Brecht abandoned the theater of the absurd for social protest, his isolation theme has been endlessly restated by the absurdists in terms of man's inability to communicate with, and relate to, his fellow...
From its Ionic-columned London headquarters building overlooking the Thames, Unilever conducts a globe-straddling business. Besides producing paper, plastic and chemicals, and operating a fleet of oceangoing freighters, Unilever sells soap, margarine, cooking oils, toilet articles, animal feed, canned and frozen foods, ice cream and sausages. Its 400 MacFisheries stores in Britain make it the world's largest fishmonger. One Unilever subsidiary, the United Africa Co., is the largest trader in Africa; another cultivates 213,710 acres of rubber, palm oil, cocoa and coffee plantations in six countries. With an annual ad budget of $300 million, Unilever...