Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original pump, built in 1764, was the only source of water in the Yard until 1863, when Grays Hall was built with indoor plumbing. Pranksters demolished the pump in 1901 and the version now standing ws built...
Last August, Radcliffe President Matina Horner presented President Derek C. Bok with a plan to restore the water pump--which served the Yard more than 200 years ago--and build a brick garden around the site. But she forgot to check with the Cambridge Historical Commission, which must approve all changes in the Yard's appearance because of its status as a historic landmark...
Under the modified plan, the pump will be restored to its origianl working condition, its surrounding bluestone pavement will be refurbished, and a red oak tree will be planted nearby. Plans for the brick garden were scrapped...
...myth of modernity than a continuation, by souped-up means, of the high luxury tradition of ebeniste furniture. The work of painters and sculptors was far less important to this process than that of photographers, engineers, architects and designers. What epitomized the machine age better: a gas pump quoted in a painting by Stuart Davis or a DC-3? John Marin's watercolors of the New York skyline or the Empire State Building itself, surging upward before the astonished eyes of Gotham at the rate of one floor a day? A relief sculpture by Charles Biederman or the prodigious steel...
...caveman fantasy called (what else?) The Barbarians. They will also appear in the soon-to-be-released Better Than One, which Peter describes as a comedy about brotherly love. It is safe to assume that loincloths will remain their strong suit. The pair has already been signed to pump up again for Barbarians...