Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week's shuttle launch shows how the mystique and wonder which used to shroud America's journeys into space has all but dissipated. Grade schoolers surely were not glued to their TV sets yesterday morning to see coverage of the Columbia's lift-off as many of us were in the days of the Apollo missions with their seeming round-the-clock network coverage. And even the media, which rarely resists saturating degrees of reportage, has described the latest mission in unexceptional terms: The New York Times relegated a preview of Thursday's lift-off to page...
Birdboot and Moon, as Stoppard has named the critics, have obsessions that dominate their thinking throughout the night. Moon is a second-string critic crazy with hatred for the first-string. "Perhaps he's dead at last, or trapped in a lift somewhere or succumbed to amnesia, wandering the land with his turn-ups stuffed with ticket stubs," he muses. Birdboot is interested only in ogling young starlets and keeping smut out of the theatre. Fulfilling what must be every playwright's ultimate fantasy, Stoppard uses the self-centered antics of these two to mock the whole business of theatre...
...International Style, which dominated the architecture of the past generation, gave us bland high-rise boxes, not skyscrapers. The tallest buildings seldom give us a lift. As Chicago Architect Harry Weese observed, these minimal sculptures of maximum size "neglected the ground, the sky and, most of all, the user...
...taste for tall living has not given much lift to furniture firms since most executives have their desks custom-made. Shinn sketched an antique schoolmaster's lectern that he came across in New England, and had a carpenter copy the design. A specially built stand-up desk may cost $4,000 or more...
...near perfect cross section, but the modern digging exposed Mary Rose's surviving timbers to the destructive scouring of tides and the appetites of marine organisms. In August 1980 the decision was made by the growing legions of Mary Rose salvagers to plan last week's dramatic lift. The salvage attempt had the blessing of Prince Charles, who in 1975 became president of the Mary Rose Trust, a charity dedicated to saving the vessel. The 21st Prince of Wales had made ten dives to inspect the ship in its cold, muddy resting place, an experience he described...