Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immense stretch of the Midwestern prairies by capitalizing on Frank Lloyd Wright's perception that the best architectural way to capture their spirit would be in strong horizontals. The space beneath the granite and concrete court and under the elevated walkways is not wasted. In places, the platform level serves as the roof covering for campus classrooms; in others, it shelters ground-level paths from rain, and adjacent outdoor parks, cobblestoned and furnished with old-fashioned fold-up lawn chairs, from wind. There, says Architect Netsch, students can bask and study in balmy weather, as if "loafing in Paris...
...ancient Greece rules this elevated plane. Four roofless exedrae, or terraced pits, provide outdoor spots for plays, lectures, flirting, and even small protest meetings. Piercing the center is one of modern architecture's most unusual staircases: an amphitheater that descends to 21 classrooms below the flying court. The platform level gives second-story entrances to the library, laboratories and student-union building (which houses barbershops, bowling alley and rifle range...
...borne several children). The intensity of sexual response is directly proportional to this color change; in no observed case has a woman reached a deep-color phase without proceeding to a satisfactory orgasm. Engorgement of the labia minora and the outer third of the vagina creates an "orgasmic platform." ∙ORGASM. With the physiologic stage thus set, a woman should experience an orgasm even more intense than a man's and marked by strong contractions of the engorged pelvic structures. The contractions usually occur at one-second intervals, continue for three to four seconds...
Although membership of the society has doubled since 1955, Evangelical theologians sometimes admit that they feel like voices crying in the wilderness. "Never has theology stood in more public disrepute than it does today," laments Carl Henry. "The ecumenical dialogue accords a prominent platform to all sorts of theologians-secular, linguistic, dialectical, existentialist-while the theology of historic Protestantism is seemingly boycotted as if it were a heresy, and the only heresy at that." Nonetheless, Evangelicals remain confident that their belief in God's infallible word is the only way for Protestantism to remain true to its history...
Then, last week, disaster struck. As the 32-man crew was lowering Sea Gem so that it could be towed to a new site, two of its ten legs suddenly collapsed and the platform sank, leaving five men dead and eight others missing. With it, Britain's hopes for a quick commercialization of the North Sea gas reserves received a setback. British Petroleum has a second rig under construction, but it will not be ready until late spring...