Word: multilevel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Erickson's oeuvre in Canada's largest West Coast city is a multilevel, three-block megastructure that blends greenery, glass, pools and waterfalls, ramps, steps and terraces, domes, blossoms and trees...
...with thermostatic controls. International Troubadour Bill Crofut (he sings in 27 languages) has installed three American-made log burners in his Wilton, Conn., home. With a $425 Riteway Model 37, Steven and Mary Ahlgren have used nothing but wood for the past six years to heat their five-room, multilevel house in Sanbornton, N.H. During last winter's arctic siege they cut all their own wood-four cords. Says Mary: "Our heating bill is always a week of work, whether we cut the wood or work to make the money...
...make each line or attitude multilevel," Martin explains. "Each word is expressed with my entire body. I feel like I'm living the joke." And killing his audiences. Martin says he is looking for "cat handcuffs." His tabby-a tiger-stripe he calls Dr. Carleton P. Forbes-has amassed $3,000 worth of "cat toys" by filching checks from Steve's mailbox. But alas, Dr. Forbes has escaped ... to Catalina. On a catamaran. Audiences invariably groan as this inventive tale turns into mushy vaudeville. Wide-eyed pause. "You think comedy is ... pretty?" leers Martin. He catches them catnapping...
...Greene Park of Brooklyn, but restorations made by day were vandalized by night. Residents finally advised the city to stop adding amenities, such as bronze ornaments. "It would be like throwing them in the East River," a citizen warned. Rochdale Park in Queens won several awards because of its multilevel design; muggers also gave the project first prize, since it allowed them to prey on residents without being observed...
...Millionaire Stewart Mott, 38, describing his hopes to build the perfect Manhattan home. Begun three years ago atop the 54th floor of a new apartment building, the four-story penthouse was to include a solarium kitchen, a library, pool, four bedrooms, office space for up to seven secretaries, a multilevel grand salon and more than 1,500 sq. ft. of terrace for Mott's main passion: organic vegetable gardening. The fastest-growing item at Mott's midtown Xanadu, however, was the construction bill, which climbed from a projected $1.6 million to $3.2 million. So last week Mott sadly...