Word: lofting
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...only ones who loved the place were the few real skiers who gloried in the 18 runs wiggling down the slopes of a snow bowl filled with a loft. base and topped by 8 ft. of powder or corn snow. First a few, then by the dozen, top skiers showed up: onetime U.S. Champion Ralph Miller set a world speed record by schussing Garganta run at 109.9 m.p.h...
...stilts and tensile all around-not just at the top and sides. Last year, 35 years after he proposed it, Kiesler was commissioned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to carry out his still-revolutionary idea in model form. He secluded himself in his Greenwich Village loft, spent month after month brooding, sketching, constructing. The end result is bound to surprise even those who know him. Anchored to its supporting columns as lightly as a dirigible, Kiesler's "Endless House" looks more like a cloud than a building...
...bachelor and onetime commercial artist, Johns works in a neat, spacious loft over a sandwich shop in lower Manhattan, explains his own work more lucidly than the critics have. "It all began," he says, "with my painting a picture of an American flag. Using this design took care of a great deal for me because I didn't have to design it. So I went on to similar things like the targets-things the mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels. For instance, I've always thought of a painting as a surface...
...greengrocer across the street, and the two Jews he has been harboring, are hauled off. In a scene more tension-packed than anything Alfred Hitchcock ever devised, two Germans search the factory by night after a burglar has broken in. As the refugees huddle breathlessly in the loft, the suspicious Germans stretch out their investigation for long, agonizing minutes. As they prowl, Stevens' camera flashes to a shot of the family cat, perched on the drainboard. its nose prodding a small funnel toward the edge, its rear leg scuffing against a plate. The fugitives-and the audience...
...quickly recovered by using Bankers Securities to take over City Stores (Oppenheim-Collins and Franklin Simon), Loft Candy Corp. (267 stores) and other diversified interests. Greenfield, a big booster of Philadelphia urban redevelopment and the Democratic Party, will be succeeded by Gustave G. Amsterdam, 50, an associate for the past 20 years and president of Bankers Securities since...