Word: pyramided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...step further by suggesting Soviet guarantees for Israel in return for its withdrawal from occupied territories. Said Zuheir Mohsen, leader of the Syria-based Saiqa group within the P.L.O.: "The parties that really need guarantees are the Palestinians and the Arabs. Gromyko made the mistake of picturing the pyramid standing on its head...
...Temple of Dendur (under glass), as well as the Michael Rockefeller wing for primitive art. The $7.1 million Lehman pavilion was merely the first phase. But it is certainly the most spectacular, as well as controversial. Seen from Central Park, it is dominated by a 67-ft.-high glass pyramid built onto the museum's original Victorian façade, with an atrium below, two levels of gray limestone ambulatories, and (sealed off from daylight on the main floor) so-called period rooms in which the greatest paintings hang...
Transparent Pyramid. The setting, however, is a different matter. It is pharaonic: a nucleus of ritual objects meant to serve the dead man in his next life, immured at the center of a transparent pyramid. Only a mummy is absent, but the eye of an irreverent visitor may easily stray to the center of the sunken atrium, half expecting to see a sarcophagus. Roche-Dinkeloo's design is elegant, icy and inflated. Lehman agreed that the new wing should have almost the same proportions as the Met's Great Hall - thus ensuring a large abstract monument to himself...
Razor Blades. Nevertheless, as the mathemagician admits, "not all my readers are fans. I have also managed to provoke some outspoken enemies." In the forefront are the credulous victims of Gardner's recent hoaxes: an elaborate treatise that demonstrated the power of pyramid-shaped structures to preserve life and sharpen razor blades, and "proof by a fictional Dr. Matrix that the millionth digit of π-if it were ever computed, would be the number 5. Even angrier are those occultivated believers in extrasensory perception and faith healing. From the beginning of his career, Gardner has been illuminating the dark...
...steelworker, he hadn't been back to work since. Instead, he padded around the house in his bathrobe and a pair of worn argyle socks each day, getting dressed on Thursdays to pick up his unemployment check. He watched people winning thousands of dollars on "The $10,000 Pyramid" and "Hollywood Squares," rearranged the living room furniture with his wife a few times, and generally would have been more relaxed than he ever imagined he could be, had he known where his meals would be coming from a few months hence...