Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scythian wood-and-gold finial of a stylized griffin's head, to new figurines that are apparently the Russian equivalent of those excruciating ashtrays one is offered in Texas airports. Mother Russia has dumped the contents of her apron into the Corcoran, and the result is a heterogeneous pile of modern kitsch, late czarist elegance and early barbaric splendor, mingled with the beautifully wrought and unpretentious products of pre-Revolutionary folk artists. The less said about official post-Revolutionary folk art the better: it is characterized (except for some fine Baltic textiles) by an earnest garishness -in short...
...heaters to prevent the water from freezing. The dining halls serve richly varied menus with items ranging from hamburgers and milkshakes to such local delicacies as hairy crab and fried squid. The village's sauna features an "enzyme ion bath" in which the athletes bury themselves in a pile of fermenting cedar sawdust. Every aspect of the games, in fact, from the new $119 million subway system that rolls on noiseless rubber tires to the crack team of abacus scorekeepers who back up the computers, was arranged with super-efficiency-sometimes to a fault. For the opening ceremonies...
Soundproof Flats. For most of its tenants, Habitat's greatest attraction is the fact that it provides total silence and privacy only five minutes from downtown Montreal. From afar, Habitat looks like a pile of blocks casually stacked by an active child; from within, each of those blocks is an apartment -usually a duplex-with its own uncluttered view, private balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows. Each unit, insulated by thick concrete walls and neoprene stripping, is totally soundproof; floors are double coated with polyurethane for easy cleaning, and walls are washable...
...Great decisions, if they are to be good decisions, must be made coolly; and if you respond in hot blood, you cannot make good decisions. And I like a clean room. This desk is always clean. Of course, if I'm writing a speech, I'm surrounded by a pile of papers as I sit stiffly thinking and concentrating. But whoever is in this office cannot afford to be undisciplined. He must live like a Spartan. You have to save yourself, be at your best, be physically and mentally disciplined to make decisions in a balanced way. I would...
From the Lincoln Sitting Room the President leads the way back to his bedroom. In it the President's pajamas are laid out on a small single bed. Next to the bed is a large night table on which is a pile of books: Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln, H.G. Wells' The Outline of History, Blake's Disraeli. On the bookshelf opposite his bed are the complete works of Winston Churchill bound in red and green leather. "Prime Minister Heath gave them to me when he was here last...