Word: lofting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five huge, barrel-vault cantilevers rising to a height of eight stories at the entrance, grille-and-glass façaded sides, and a horseshoe interior seating 3,800 (v. the Met's 3,612). The 108-ft.-deep stage will be serviced by a 14-story stage loft and three movable stages, one equipped with turntable...
Bachelor Uncle Henry ("He was like a shy volcano, boiling and boiling but afraid of boiling over") antes up $10,000, and Bill gets his start in exported dyestuffs. He operates from a loft in an egg-crate factory, and his business has more downs than ups, but Bill meets a picaresque crew of characters from mad chemists to eccentric fellow entrepreneurs to weird office help...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, designed in 1937-38 (completed in 1939) with the late Philip L. Goodwin, one of the earliest U.S. buildings constructed in the International Style. Conceived as a luminous rectangle, incorporating vast, flexible loft space for exhibitions, and an inviting, open ground floor, it is fronted by a wall of insulated glass to give the interior an alabaster glow. Stone calls it "a simple, vivid, workable building...
After the war Al built a tile-roofed, Spanish-style mansion at the edge of the Hudson River palisades in New Jersey, built a loft. metal fence topped by barbed wire, installed lights and Doberman pinscher watchdogs, and settled down to the good life. He went to race tracks and took the sun in Florida and Hot Springs, Ark. This existence was interrupted in 1954 when the Government charged him with evading a paltry $12,000 in federal income taxes. Before the matter was settled two Government witnesses, an elderly couple, disappeared from their bloodstained Miami house...
...pleasantest places in the Square to waste an idle hour or so in conversation and looking around is Schuster's Art Gallery on Palmer Street, behind the Coop. The Gallery is in the loft of an old paint shop and it bears many scars of its early career. Ethereal verse occasionally seeps through the wall from the Poet's Theatre and various raven-haired avant-garde types waft in and out on various clouds...