Word: lintel
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...gained--and the drama lost. Piranesi, in one of his more imaginative moments, etched a smart temple at Tivoli, surrounded by figures in various melodramatic poses, stalking the ruined stairs, lurking behind the columns. One dark figure assumes a Byronic posture in the doorway; the thick stone lintel looms threateningly over him. In Levit's photograph of the spot, crisscrossed by the wires of a restaurant awning, the door assumes its proper proportions and the waiter standing in the doorway (in roughly the same position as Piranesi's mysterious character) looks rather silly. The ruin is now officially designated...
...DIARY reflects a diffusion between the poet's life and work that eludes anecdote, rumor or publisher's blurbs. The song wafted from a nearby taverna and overheard at night; the grace in three ancient pieces of a fallen lintel lit by the noon sun; grief for a cat's death. This interplay of nature, humanity and inanimate objects that affects the fragile balance of Seferis's poetry, always startles...
With his rosy, unlined face, he looks like a 15-year-old boy standing on a chair. But then Michael Crichton, M.D., ducks his 6 ft. 9 in. under the lintel of his office door and casually maneuvers a lovely young actress back into the Los Angeles sunshine. Just as casually he diagnoses the actress's problems. "She can't play a tough_ _ _ _. " The prescription? "I'll have to rewrite her part...
...outward from the great court. "We've thought of the design as being created by a drop of water," says the architect. "The ripples are more intense in the center and broaden as the waves move out." From lawn chairs to the 500-ft. truss that is the lintel of the laboratory building, the campus explodes in scale. Even the bricks on the walls and scattered decorative stone bases double in size to harmonize with larger facades. "It's an old Renaissance trick," explains Netsch...
...Greeks invented the post and lintel because it seemed to them extremely logical, he said, but "no one with any common sense" would...