Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sexual satisfactions, none of which is now news to any of us, and may for once, please God, be considered boring to other people. I am tired of love and love and love. And when I see a play like Suddenly, Last Summer or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I recognize that its chief appeal to those of us in the audience who are not homosexuals is that it offers a touch of 'rebellion' or 'depravity' . . . The philistines at the play used to be moral; now they demand sensationalism at any price...
...Kahn, the great moment in architecture was when "the walls parted and the column became." But he does not believe that columns need look like classic colonnades-all form and no function except to support the roof. He has planned one towering office structure that looks like giant Tinker Toys studded with pyramid-shaped joints that are used as service areas. "I like my buildings to have knuckles," he explains. "Joints are the beginning of ornament." He has also used daring devices in more down-to-earth buildings. His Yale Art Gallery, for example, uses exposed reinforced concrete tetrahedrons...
...warmth of tone, a turbulence, and a gusto that is the envy of every other saxman in the business. In their most popular number-This Here, by Pianist Bobby Timmons-the quintet pours cool brass over the driving beat in long, looping lines that seem to glide through the roof and into the night...
Within liberal limits, the self-care patients are encouraged to indulge their whims. They get haircuts and permanents when they please, sunbathe on the hospital roof, play cards, browse in the gift shop, receive visitors from noon until 8 p.m. One man got permission to go home for some summer shirts when the weather turned warm. A housewife used to get a midafternoon snack of scrambled-egg sandwich and caramel sundae. Exclaimed she: "I had no idea being in a hospital could be so much fun. I did have one problem today. I just could not find a fourth...
...their rather idiosyncratic selves. Giorgio's tawny-haired sister Elena, with whom he is spiritually close to incest, drives motorboats and herself at a swamping pace. Brother Giuliano plays cards from morning to night and takes cute tricks to bed. With Chekhovian unconcern, Papa Partibon paints while the roof is sold over his head for mortgages...