Word: patios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damaged fabrics, photo labs and a microfilm room, a complete research library and special workrooms for visiting scholars. The building is air-conditioned, and when visitors get tired of looking at the exhibits, they can relax in the museum's handsome lounge, or wander out onto a flagstone patio for a view of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains...
...customers are the poor. When the shoeshiner's family takes a trip on the second-class bus, the cilindrero plays Las Golondrinas at the sendoff. He performs at dances for those who cannot afford to hire mariachis or fancy bands. When at midafternoon he shuffles into the big patio of a working-class tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner scrambles for the centavos. Late in the day, dusty and tired, he finds...
...political opponents, was Alfredo Palacios, 72, mustachioed ex-dean of the University of Buenos Aires' law school, grand old man of Argentine socialism, veteran of 70 duels. Also in jail: ex-Senator Nicolas Repetto, 81. "Unheard of!" barked Palacios to a fellow inmate as he tramped across the patio of Buenos Aires' 23rd precinct station during the prisoners' exercise period. "Under arrest without charges! There is no more respect for old age and venerability...
...pilotis. Within the Y is space for UNESCO's 1,200 workers, each one with a window on Paris; there will be small conference rooms, a bank, workshops, two restaurants, doctors' offices and libraries. On the ground, the architects plan a mosaic-tiled pool, a delegates' patio, and off to one side a squat conference building with a large auditorium and a radical, accordion-pleated roof so strong that it needs only one line of interior pillars for support...
...palace in staid Vedado. A fond, though divorced, father, he used to paste thought-provoking newspaper articles on his daughters' boudoir mirrors, made them eat ground-up egg shells to add calcium for brain food, and urged them to sit under a mango tree in the family patio because he has received some of his best inspiration in its shade...