Word: portico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center of an international incident last week. The scene was the tall, marble Peace Arch just north of Elaine, Wash., which marks the border between the U.S. and Canada. One afternoon a car drove past the arch and its surrounding gardens and rolled to a halt beneath the portico of the U.S. customs building. The customs official on duty routinely noted the car's license number, then punched it into his computer-which is part of the Treasury Emergency Communication System and is tied into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's national crime computers. Almost instantaneously...
...choir of touring American college students, concluding that London could do with some cheering up, gathered in the portico of St. Martin -in-the-Fields church one afternoon last week, and offered an impromptu rendition of Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be? For Londoners who paused to listen in the rain, it seemed like a good question. As the nation suffered through its second three-day work week, decreed by the government because of a coal miners' slowdown, Britons swapped opinions about darkened streets, frigid flats, gutted paychecks-and ways to endure the energy shortage...
...Claus, otherwise known as Sandy Fox, head of the graphics and protocol office in the East Wing, has a good jolly ho, ho, ho. He carried a string of sleigh bells over his shoulder as he jingled on his prestigious errand from the East Room to the North Portico. Sandy has been the White House Santa since the Kennedy days; he has pieced together a flawless costume and has grown a real white mustache that cannot be pulled off. His tummy is the creation of his daughter Debbie, who glued together several pieces of foam rubber and sewed...
...from Rome that Palladio got his most typical device: the temple-like portico in front of his buildings supporting a triangular pediment. He had seen it on temples like the Pantheon; in an odd but characteristic misapprehension, Palladio guessed that this stately entrance had come from the lost dwellings of antiquity. "I thought it most convenient," he explained, "to begin with the houses of private persons, as thinking it reasonable to believe that these in time gave rise to public edifices." So if the temple was a magnified house, a house could look like a temple. No solution could have...
...gotten a lot colder during the night and the Inauguration took place beneath a bleak, grey sky. A west to northwest wind, gusting up to 30 miles per hour, ripped across the grandstands and Presidential Pavillion at the Fast Portico of the Capitol. "This is just like a football game said a man with a blanket as he showed his passes to a policeman...