Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country coffee planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...
...FRIEND at the Bradford Hotel Roof Theatre: First Bos- ton engagement of Sandy Wilson's spoof on the Twenties, Pre-curtain dinner and dancing plus dancing after the show. Eves...
Several workmen labored all afternoon on the roof of Widener Library and bored holes, at carefully measured ten foot intervals, into the ledge around the interior court. In these holes were inserted poles with strings dangling from the end. At the end of each string there is a nine inch gilt owl which sways menacingly in the wind. The pigeons have been fearless, however, and continue to walk and roost on the ledge with no thought of their own safety...
...Orleans Rhythm Kings: Tin Roof Blues (Riverside). Chicago style-blary, jagged, and rough around the edges-by one of the two bands (along with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) that ruled the North and South Sides in the old days. Put on wax in the early '20s, these performances are a reminder that the King of the Kings was the late Clarinetist Leon Rappolo, whose solos in such numbers as Tiger Rag and the title song (also known as Jazzin' Babies) are taut as a bent...
Worthy of Homer. It was 200 ft. long and 18 stories high-a huge filing cabinet in which 337 apartments could be placed like drawers. Part of the way up was an "internal street" of shops, and on the roof was a garden made up, not of plants and trees, but of sculptured shapes surrounded by a parapet that shut out all but the sky and the mountaintops. Corbu called the building a "Radiant City," its garden "a landscape worthy of Homer...