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...SAYS disabled students can't take a class in the Geological Lecture Rooms? There's no need to climb a single step. Just take the ramp into Tozzer Library, pass from there toward the Peabody Museum, through the museum gift shop, wait for the attendant to unlock the fire door, walk through the museum, and enter the back door of the Geological Lecture Room, Presto...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: A Moving Question | 5/5/1982 | See Source »

...buried ghost of the tree as it looked when it was younger. This may sound a simple conceit, but it is not: the finished sculpture, almost "nature" but not quite, also relates in a subtle way to the organic spiral form of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim ramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wild Pets, Tame Pastiche | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Coolidge Hall looks innocuous enough from the outside. Located about two blocks past Memorial Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street has little to distinguish it from neighboring structures other than a long concrete ramp leading to its glass doors. But this perception changes quickly once the visitor ventures inside, in the lobby, students and faculty banter in several languages. Conversations invariably produce car-catching phrases like "last time I spoke to Helmut Schmidt" and "I'll ask Lopez portillo when I see him next week. "The seminar rooms are filled: in one, foreign dignitary discuses the potential for peace in the Middle...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Tomorrow the World | 3/5/1982 | See Source »

...mask and carrying a .38 caliber reveiver approached the toll booth and demanded money. The employee gave him $100, but the man demanded the blue bag containing the booth's bank deposit of $600. The employee gave the man the bag, and the man fled up the ramp to Holyoke St., turning at the top of the ramp to fire a shot at the booth and take off his mask. He then fled up Mt. Auburn...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Police Blotter | 2/5/1982 | See Source »

Hepburn seemed always on the ascendant, scaling the invisible ramp of her own confidence. But it was Fred Astaire who defined screen movement, for the '30s and forever. With athletic nonchalance, he showed moviegoers how the human body could express strength, rapture, elegance, amazing grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can Dance a Little | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

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