Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nathaniel West (who died in an automobile accident) been writing after the advent of the L.A. freeway system and Ralph Williams used-car lots, one suspects that Tod Hackett's apocalyptic vision in Day of the Locust would have been a mammoth car pile-up rather than "The Burning of Los Angeles." (Instead, Godard has provided us with the end-of-the-world traffic jam in his 1968 Weekend...
Recently it was discovered on a city junk pile, with "part of the bottom converted into a refrigerator." Mrs. Catto told embarrassed officials that the city had been given the statue to be a source of pleasure, not pain, and the Cattos would pay the necessary $6,000 to have it restored...
...looks like a pile of leaves partially eroded by blight, or like a wet mop, upended, after a hard day on the kitchen floor. But this particular disaster area is no accident; it is a hairstyle, the purposeful creation of coiffeurs who see "the Ape" as the newest, most chic head around...
...What accumulates in the halls over the years, then, is a pile-up of spirits and vibrations-thought-bubbles stacked to the ceilings. For Emerson and Thorean and the luminaries of four centuries not only slept here, but studied and wrote in these rooms. (Thomas Sterns Eliot wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock the winter of 1909, his senior year...
...Wednesday and Thursday night, John L. Smith goes to a janitor's closet in the Kansas City, Mo., Federal Office Building and rolls out a battered metal dolly. It holds a filing cabinet full of academic-achievement tests, a carton of mimeographed math and reading drills, and a pile of pocket-size dictionaries. "This is our school," he says. In the past five years, the cart's contents have brought 2,500 school dropouts all they need to crack the barrier between them and a better job: a high school equivalency diploma...