Word: parasoled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elephants & Parasol. Historically, Laos was never a strong power. When not invaded by their neighbors, the Laotians wrangled among themselves, divided and subdivided their country into tiny principalities. A great hero, Fa Ngoum, united Laos in the 14th century under the name of the Land of the Million Elephants and the White Parasol. But when France made it a protectorate in 1893, Laos was again a patchwork of small states...
...Florida six years ago, promptly began making a name for his small, Sarasota-based firm by arguing that a house need not be a box, or even box-shaped. In his top-prizewinning house for Samuel H. Herron Jr. at Venice, Fla. (see color and blueprint). Lundy threw a parasol of laminated southern pine arches over the living areas as an independent roof shelter, then skillfully combined the whole series of circles and rectangles into a floor plan that he hoped would not only be practical but also allow for the whims of the owners. At the center...
...other classical authors even mentioned it. No contemporary drawing of it was known, and there was a fair possibility that it might have been only as real as some other items in Pliny, such as people in India who have only one foot and sometimes use it as a parasol.* But last week an ancient carving was proving that the Gallic harvester really existed, just about as Pliny described...
...judges have openly defied Corbu's decree that all vehicular traffic approach the building on a sunken drive. Instead, they drive up on the paths the architect laid out for pedestrians, and park their cars under the great arches that rise to the building's parasol roof. Le Corbusier indignantly photographed the grease spots left by the cars beneath his splendid arches, and snapped: "What sort of judges are these who do not obey the traffic laws?" Five of the eight judges decided that they did not like the abstract cubist tapestries Le Corbusier designed for their courtrooms...
...into place, and punctuating the din of hammering and riveting with curses in half a dozen languages. Forty-four nations are striving to ready their pavilions for the Brussels World's Fair, which opens April 17. Behind the fair's grand display of bunting, chrome, cantilevers and parasol domes lies a deeply serious purpose. By next autumn, some 35 million visitors (all Brussels hotels are booked solid for three months after the fair opens) will file through the gates, judge and compare the nations by what they see before them...