Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shapes are even more exciting than the stakes. West German architects are pitching a swooping, reinforced tent over the pavilion at right, while France's designers support the roof of their eccentric circle from extended vertical ribs. Most eye challenging of all is Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie's "Habitat," a visionary, multilevel village, complete with shops. Prefabricated, prestressed concrete cubes are equipped with kitchens, bathrooms, wiring, plumbing, insulation and windows made in an assembly-line plant on the site. Then the units, averaging 80 tons apiece, are crane-hoisted into position like gargantuan building blocks. When the project...
...phenomenal number of people signed up to be interviewed for the festival -- so many that casting had to be done with mimeographed form letters sent to each applicant, telling him whether he had been accepted, and what parts he had been given. With these letters the roof fell on most personal visions for the festival. The old Loeb hands -- graduate students, outside people, and a small clique of upperclassmen -- found themselves, almost without exception, cast in minor roles...
...Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale home games, freshmen and sometimes sophomores are annually relegated to the temporary bleachers behind the goal post at the open end of the Stadium. The situation for last Saturday's game with Yale was the worst ever, as 500 folding chairs were added on the roof to handle freshmen and their dates...
...washing machines from which a French peasant, say, or a Greek shopkeeper would still get years of use. They are amazed at the serviceable suits that an American sends off to the Salvation Army the minute an elbow gives way or a knee frays. Tin cans that would roof a million Caribbean cottages are tossed onto scrap heaps. Perfectly good buildings are torn down and replaced by new ones with an economic life expectancy of only 50 years. Waste, outrageous waste, cry the critics-and by no means only foreign critics. U.S. social commentators loudly deplore the "waste makers...
...packing him off to bed with her best friend (Romy Schneider). One memorable night, as a storm rages outside, she sees Romy and Peter on a balcony in an alfresco embrace, heedless of wind, rain and lightning. Meanwhile, a murderer fleeing a crime of passion appears on an adjacent roof, and Melina decides to help him. Why? To that question there is a multiple-choice answer: 1) she is desperate for excitement, 2) she is romantic and immature, 3) she is a fanatic sexistentialist, or 4) 10:30 P.M. Summer hits the high mark of silliness. Pick...