Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he did leave the hall, about 50 white and Negro students mobbed and rocked his car-with a frightened Wallace inside. No one was hurt, but the protesters dented the car roof and broke off the antenna. Wallace had gone to New Hampshire to drum up publicity for his third-party presidential candidacy, which he hopes to advance in that state's Democratic primary next year. The unruly reception at Dartmouth, besides violating his right to be heard and that of others to listen, only played into his hands by gaining him far more attention than his stock...
...this or that on-looker he gives motion to ceremonies which I imagine would be otherwise tedious to Occidentals. In fact, it is chiefly through the visual manipulations that the movie is comprehensible to Westerners. A few scenes, shot by the walls of the palace or on its roof, recall the periods of magical quiet in the courtyard episodes in Rasho Mon, and it is at these times that the film seems most strange and foreign...
...renovators' secret weapon was the "drop-in," a stack of boxlike prefabricated units containing kitchen and bathroom. One by one, the units were lowered by a 250-ft. crane through holes cut in the roof and upper floors, and placed inside. Thus, each apartment got a brand-new, modern service core, including a 20-in. gas range, 10-cu.-ft. refrigerator, stainless-steel sink and complete bathroom with tub, shower, porcelain-finished bowl and toilet...
...miles of paved streets, 105 businesses including a bank, a shopping center, a pizza parlor, bowling alley and six restaurants, and a golf course. Though most of the carefully controlled architecture is uninspired, Wood added a Disneyland touch to the Lake Havasu Hotel by running a waterfall over its roof...
...compromise. "The Chinese people love compromise," said Lu Hsün, a satirist who died in 1936. "If you say to them," This room is too dark, we must have a window made,' they will oppose you. But if you say, 'Let's take off the roof,' they will compromise with you and say, 'Let's have a window...