Word: lofting
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...these days, found the studios too small to accommodate their works. Owing to the fact that money ran out before air conditioning could be installed, unshaded south-facing rooms were unbearably hot, and the basement graphics workshops occasionally filled up with chemical fumes. The vast, multilevel architectural drafting loft, designed without partitions to encourage communication between students in different classes, made private consultations with teachers difficult...
SETTLED in the middle of lower Manhattan's 19th century manufacturing district is a loft-theater where two artists are doing things with television and videotape that you have never seen on the rube...
...Miller, and Nin shouting confusedly at the dinner table; another describes the exhaustion of New York literary society, drunken parties, jazz. The endeavor to write almost seems to subside before the need to simply go on. Even though she was eventually driven to publish her own works in a loft before Edmund Wilson discovered Under a Glass Bell in 1944, Nin never failed to remind herself that "we exult in what we master and discover." The entries from January, 1942, relate the chore of handsetting and printing one's own books, and the triumph of attention, all amidst the background...
Surely one of the funniest one-acters I have ever seen, Noon is about a wide variety of people (a nymphomaniac, a homosexual, an uptight heterosexual-intellectual, and a middle-aged sado-masochist couple from Westchester) who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. They have all come to meet with a certain Dale (sex unknown) who seems to have answered each character's sleazy newspaper ad for sexual adventure...
session, she followed me to the loft where I slept and in the darkness I heard the blood-cry of her wings. One hour old, right on schedule, she extracted her photographer's model...