Word: patios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better solution, the antigovernment coalition feels, would be Valencia's resignation. "Anyone who wants to remove me from San Carlos Palace," he said, "will have to pause in the patio to shoot me first...
Residential and recreational areas will be woven together so closely that some Restonians will be able to chip onto a nearby green from their patio, others to watch their horses grazing a few steps away, still others cast off from their own bulkheads, motorboat across the lake, and moor a few feet away from their favorite store. Its houses will be built around dead-end streets, thus keeping children well away from hurtling through-traffic. Because no part of any village will be more than ten minutes away by foot, most travel will be confined to tree-lined walkways...
Induced Meditation. Visitors must enter from a sunken patio below the wall, instinctively ducking as they pass through the low bronze gates. Once inside, they move down a dim 70-ft. corridor, whose ominous overhead arching is shaded from grey into black. At the end beckon gleaming golden doors, which will open automatically as visitors approach and release them into the dazzling dome (see overpage...
...begins to see, or thinks he sees, the guile in her innocence. He starts checking the mileage of her midget car, monitors her phone calls, has her followed, even fakes a business trip and sneaks back home with blanket, thermos, flashlight and binoculars to reconnoiter his own patio. The evening ends disastrously, and the movie ends as a slick burlesque that contains an agreeable amoral lesson: the fool who stalks his wife's virtue as though it were big game is apt to bag peace of mind along with a pair of horns...
...months ago, Rorimer reopened 43 newly air-conditioned, relit and restored galleries of European paintings. He unveiled the U.S.'s largest art reference shelf, the 150,000-volume Thomas J. Watson Library, and threw open the Vélez Blanco Patio (opposite page), whose elegant lintels had lain in the basement since 1945. This week he will open to the public the Met's new Far Eastern and Islamic galleries (color pages, following), with great halls of giant buddhas that seem to ring with temple gongs, and a collection of Islamic art without parallel...