Word: lofting
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...planning. Though acoustics are a problem (no really soundproof movable partition has been perfected), flexible walls can help turn the trick. One arresting example is Architect John Lyon Reid's new (1958) Mills High School in Millbrae, Calif. Though built to stand 100 years, Mills follows an industrial "loft plan" in which none of the interior walls is structural. By adjusting a few nuts and bolts, walls can be shifted overnight...
...down loft in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, an ex-child psychologist named Wallace Zuckermann turns out the U.S.'s only mass-produced harpsichord, an instrument that sells briskly for $750, but is derided by professionals. Last spring, Zuckermann went a step further: for a mere $150, his clients can now buy the Zuckermann Do-It-Yourself Harpsichord Kit, complete with diagrams, strings, jacks and Ivaloid plastic keys...
...that Morrison "has just been defeated for Governor so he's got a lot of spare time now." When Lyndon Johnson accepted the vice-presidential nomination, Brinkley suggested that the slogan "All the way with L.B.J." should now read "Half the way with L.B.J." Cooped up in a loft. by 12-ft. glassed-in booth that looked as cramped as the cabin of a spaceship, Huntley and Brinkley muffled all organ tones, were obviously so complementary a pair-Brinkley the aperitif, Huntley the cordial-that neither could have done so well alone. They relaxed and let history write itself...
...field of opponents by grandly inquiring, "Well, who's going to be second?" Among the last of the sly oldtimers is E. J. ("Dutch") Harrison, 50. With a younger player watching, Harrison will occasionally choose the wrong iron for a shot, choke upon the grip, curb his swing and loft the ball to the green. His opponent, noting the club Harrison has used, will select the same one, blithely swing full-out?and send his ball soaring far beyond the green into a trap...
...long supported himself by commercial art, but that day is past; the combines created in Rauschenberg's Manhattan loft bring from $400 to $7,500 apiece. Such public demand for such private images is one of the art boom's most fascinating phenomena. Does it reflect a starvation diet of subjective experience amongst the mass of rich Americans? Or do people buy Rauschenberg to share in his quiet protest against what they think cellophane-wrapped sort of world...