Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standing on the roof of the stage would be tumbled off in short order...
...weather improves. Virginia's Historic Garden Week and the Middleburg Races in April bring a flush of tourists, even in normal times. These will, undoubtedly, wend their way to Glen Ora, but all they'll see will be the gatehouse entrance, the top of the roof of the main house, and a couple of miles of tortured stone walls on either side of the country road past the farm. Part of the Peace Corps could be used to rebuild them, as in the old WPA days...
...shelter would have a concrete and steel roof 2 ft. thick, 6-in. concrete walls, and would be equipped with a handoperated air pump. After being properly stocked with food, said Doremus, it could house a family of six for six weeks. Doremus pointed out that in peacetime, the shelter could be put to use as a storeroom or photographic darkroom...
Back on the ground, Neddie the Nut finds other uses for the go goo. Is the college basketball squad losing the big game? The prof smears a little witch pitch on the squad's sneakers, and the home team shows a sudden bounce-clear to the roof of the gymnasium. Does the villain (Keenan Wynn) try to steal the hero's secret? The prof discreetly adds a lift to that low heel, leaves him bouncing like a pogo stick till the nutty putty is recovered. Do the Army, Navy and Air Force consider his conquest of gravity...
...kind of bridge between reality and dreams, Hultberg exaggerates perspective. The eye no sooner lights upon some familiar surface-a deck, a dock, a piece of roof-than it is drawn through some sudden opening, whisked up a ladder or a plank, flipped into space. Occasionally a whole painting is made up of windows, each with a separate world behind it. The shadowy figures lurking here or there are merely spectators: ''They put the viewer into the picture...