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Kilduff said that plans are underway to repair the roof, but plywood and roofing felt will cover the hole until the causes of accident have been determined...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Coach in Good Condition After High Voltage Shock | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...buildings are easier to dislike than those of any other important American architect. They are often dissonant and usually constructed of homely materials -- unpainted metal and plywood, asphalt shingles, stucco, rough concrete. They typify no up-and-coming architectural trend. In the postmodernist era, when much fashionable architecture has been charming and playful and not much more, Frank Gehry's difficult, edgy buildings are singular and brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Building Beauty the Hard Way | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

Weaver and Lundskow are two of eleven students arrested under charges of disorderly conduct last April 24, when they attempted to build symbolic "shanties" in front of the school's student union. Lundskow and two other students were arrested for trying to stop university employees from dismantling the plywood structures...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Students Sue BU In Free Speech Case | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

Gallagher had a style that will be missed. He was certainly the only candidate in the Eighth to ascend Harvard protesters' plywood "Ivory Tower" and yell "Hey, this is fun!" from its summit...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Place for Idealism | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...been replaced in 1916 by a leaky, kitschy amber-glass contraption. (It is now on display in the new granite entrance lobby, designed by the firm of Swanke Hayden Connell.) Appropriately, twelve French artisans were imported to fashion a new torch. They needed a year to make a plywood mold, take a plaster cast of the wooden form, make a metal mold over which reinforcing concrete was poured, and finally fashion the repousse copper flame itself--then cover it in nearly a pound of 24-karat gold leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pair of American Islands | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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