Word: plaza
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Every afternoon, New York City's Plaza Hotel serves high tea in the Palm Court, a bright winter garden with towering palms and a harpist. And every day, among the set of silver-haired dames in wool suits are demure but excited little girls who have come to pay homage to Eloise. They nibble on cucumber sandwiches and rocky scones, just like their beloved literary heroine...
...They think she's real," says Eloise's illustrator, Hilary Knight, 75, who first drew the plucky character in the 1955 book Kay Thompson's Eloise. In the next decade, he and the eccentric Thompson produced four more books featuring the 6-year-old imp who resides at the Plaza with her saucy au pair, Nanny, and who thrives on creating elevator traffic jams...
...used to women architects. All barriers, but fundamentally it was because my work was not normative." Normative? "Well, ordinary, everyday stuff." Bilbao has helped. "Clients see it's possible to do something extraordinary that is not repetition." Hadid's extraordinary designs are now on order in Barcelona (the Arts Plaza in the city center); Leipzig (a car plant); another German city, Wolfsburg (a science center); Rome (a museum of modern art); Salerno, Italy (a ferry terminal); Cincinnati, Ohio (an arts center); Innsbruck, Austria (a café-topped ski jump, which opened last month); Abu Dhabi (a sinuous bridge); and, biggest...
...Pancho, grunge-loving monster on Plaza Sésamo, Mexico WHAT Tolerance; even grouches can be fun MIGHT SAY My cousin Oscar, he never rings...
...memorial consists of a sphere that formerly stood at the fountain in the center of the World Trade Center Plaza...