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...lower buildings, the situation has always been dramatically better. The mailboxes are intact, and there is little grafitti in the halls. Rows of plywood windows-signs of burned out apartments-mar only the tower building...
...under each window to catch the glass fragments. One superstitious woman even told the insurance company to "sell the building," since every broken mirror-window represented seven years of bad luck-20,000 years of it in total. Instead, each flawed window has been temporarily replaced with sheets of plywood, leading Bostonians to nickname the building "the Plywood Palace...
...Mexico, where he studied the ruins of Maya architecture: the monumental stairways and levels of buildings like the Temple at Uxmal in Yucatan were to be reflected in the Opera House's huge entrance stair. Finally, vaults and base were to be linked by hung glass walls with plywood ribs, flexing outwards like the primaries of a gull in flight...
...current fad in the U.S. and Canada spins off that theory, by way of France and Czechoslovakia. French researchers discovered 70 years ago that if they put a dead cat inside a small plywood pyramid, the body did not decay but merely dehydrated or was "mummified." Inspired by that work, Czechoslovak Radio Engineer Karel Drbal fashioned his own small pyramid and stored his razor blades in it. In 1959 Drbal took out a patent on the Cheops Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener...
...mottled 60-story tower dominates the Boston skyline with over 3500 panes now replaced by plywood...