Word: loft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obsession with great eccentric architecture and spectacles-Gaudi's Art Nouveau buildings in Barcelona, the park of monstrous 16th century carvings near Bomarzo in Italy. They are also fascinated by "naive" and "primitive" structures like the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, by puppets, facsimiles and toys. Their studio loft in Manhattan's Little Italy is crammed with antique clockwork toys and fragments of gaudy Sicilian carts. (They once traveled together in a horse-drawn wagon from Florence to Venice, giving puppet shows en route to pay their way.) Such are not the tastes of formalists, and those...
...issues), has had a heady time in its first year. It has shot from a claimed circulation of 25,000 to 300,000 in its current issue. Its 20 youthful staffers-many of them refugees from straight publications like Good Housekeeping-work out of a large loft in Manhattan. Editorially, High Times has so far ranged all the way from the bizarre to the benumbed. One early issue ran a far-out, unverified, unsigned account of President John Kennedy "turning on" to alleviate his back troubles ("I Was Kennedy's Dealer"). Later issues have come down to more clear...
...course records in the U.S. and holds three engineering degrees from Stanford. Rogers, 67, never did well in tournaments because "I got so nervous I'd throw up"; high-stakes private matches are more his thing. His Shamrock clubs, he says, are going to give golfers the loft that has been missing from their long irons. "I've finally developed the club I've dreamed about since Bob Jones gave me my first...
Bend and Stretch. The Manhattan telephone directory lists 27 yoga instruction centers. One of the most attractive yoga studios is a converted loft organized by Dick Shea, 35, a sometime naval frogman, demolition expert and dancer, and Alan Levy, also 35 and a licensed chiropractor. Patrons come in for an average half-hour twice a week, to bend and stretch, arch their backs, swing their pelvises and breathe deeply, all at their own speed. They find that unlike conventional calisthenics, which tend to be exhausting, yoga renews their energy...
...elegant stained-glass front window, vaulted, beamed ceilings and a crafted Gothic interior. Though it might seem odd to some that Christians should go to a church for sole rather than soul, the Abbey has been serving capacity crowds. Most favored of its five dining areas: the choir loft, where monk-robed waiters Handel their guests with priestly concern...