Word: loft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ranch either. She had had a stroke and it confined her to her home. When she was a teenager, Rebekah had hired her to tend the Johnson children while Rebekah taught her elocution students. Mrs. Lewis remembered the time that Lyndon had taken the younger ones up in the loft of the barn and while he was going down a ladder with one of the girls he had fallen. "He held onto the little girl," said Mrs. Lewis. "She wasn't hurt. But Lyndon broke...
...paper was then printed by H. E. Lombard in the loft of a wooden building in Central Square in the 'Port'. Two of us had to go each midnight to read proof. As the ears from Boston ran only once an hour after midnight, and by horsepower, we were usually obliged to walk back to our rooms. In September, 1884, we contracted with an Englishman to print the paper. He had an old Washington hand-press and got off one issue--delivered the next afternoon. He was fired and Lombard opened a printing office for us in Brattle Street...
Meanwhile, Kahn has been professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania for the past 15 years. As he puts it: "I think teaching is essential to me. I feel it is my chapel." Kahn's office, two loft floors on Walnut Street in Philadelphia, is more like the messy drawing studio of an architecture school than the luxurious corporate hives of other leading U.S. architects. Done in raw wood and plasterboard, it is defended by only one secretary. The 71-year-old Kahn can be found in a small room (stacked with battered tomes on architectural history), tossing...
While Morrow hammered away at his typewriter, Artist Marisol hammered away at the cover sculpture. Working from photographs, she spent ten days in her Manhattan loft chiseling the Nixon-Kissinger visages into her mind, then onto a carefully selected 135-lb. piece of pink marble (photographed in turn by Robert Crandall for TIME's cover). Those who have advocated a cover of a different shape, whether of a football coach or a militant feminist, must rest content until next year...
Stern's affinity for neon developed in the late 1960s, when he began collecting castoff neon fixtures from stores that were simply throwing them away. "I finally had about 40 of them hanging on the walls of my loft," he recalls. "Some of my friends saw them, liked them and even bought them. That's when I first got the idea of selling neon fixtures for use in the home." It took Partner Romanoff longer to succumb to neon, but now he too is an incurable addict. Recently he suffered through "this terrible old Ida Lupino movie because...