Word: pavillions
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...skill with color, plain lines and expert engineering takes especially kindly to the middle-aged figure. Many women who wear his clothes as never see him, but such favored clients as "Babs" Paley and "Ceezee" Guest can sometimes prevail on him to discuss their wardrobes over lunch at Le Pavillion or the Colony. "I think I've been a reassuring influence in fashion," he says. "I don't want my clothes to make a woman look desperate for attention; I do want them to add to her chic and not make her look smarty smart...
...University City, Paris, there rose a dormitory called the Swiss Pavillion-a great slab on stilts with a front that was mostly of glass, and blank end walls. One Swiss newspaper predicted that it would corrupt the youth who lived in it, but to architects it was a milestone; it became the model for countless other slabs before and since the U N Building. In all his work, Corbu had lifted his prisms on high to reclaim the land underneath. His columned structures had freed the façade for inventive sculpturing, opened up interiors, surrendered the long dark walls...
...years, Harvard has sailed on sufferance out of the MIT pavillion, borrowing Tech dinghies. Although still freeloading this spring, the Crimson has received permission to practice five afternoons a week instead of three, as previously...
...idea what it meant he managed to get through accrete. Other contestants were not so lucky: mellifluous lost an "1," fenestrate got a "phi," and molybdenum came out moldinum. By the time Bill was getting apocalypse, Pharisaical and littoral, the auditorium was already ringing with misspelled words (baubal, glatial, pavillion, urbain, annoble). Finally, the contest was narrowed down to three...
Instead of using the Tech dinghies, the skippers took out the new dinghies of the Boston Community Sailing Pavillion in the good but puffy westerly breeze that turned the races into puff-hunting contests. At the end of each race the crews changed boats and set out again over one of the two courses laid out by the committee...