Word: metallism
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...plays absent-mindedly with his wristwatch, the soft light from his porcelain desk lamp glittering off its metal face. The smile that dances perpetually around the edges of his mouth betrays slight bemusement at all the attention he is getting...
...brick, first and most important. Hardwood floors. Carved-metal staircase rails. Subtle lighting. And, of course, an impression of age, of well-seasoned stateliness that befits the name Harvard, a university founded almost a century and a half before the Revolutionary...
...some, notorious spurts of new construction during the 1960s and 1970s has meant a Harvard experience encased in a realm of concrete, carpeting and metal window frames...
...leakage has affected more than plaster roofs and inhabitants' nerves. Over the years, the water has warped the metal window frames common to buildings of the 60s and 70s, leading to drafts...
Admittedly, the remodeled space has the strange and irresistible attraction that makes one pick at scabs or attend grand openings of Wal-Marts. The attraction of the space does not come from the "very now, very 90s" blue, metal waves along the arcade, or the painstakingly hip "Rebecca's Santa Fe Express Cafe." It comes from the sheer magnetism...