Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cultural Bonanza. Sitting in Sydney's harbor, Utzon's incomplete colossus is composed of three structures with cantile vered rooftops. Since they are seen from passing ships, Utzon conceived of the roofs as "the fifth fa?ade." Into them, he has poured all his inventiveness. The roof lines billow like the spinnakers of a squadron of racing yachts...
Criticism centers on the soaring roofs, which conceal the acoustical ceilings. The late Frank Lloyd Wright saw the roofs as so many "circus tents." Critic Lewis Mumford assailed the silhouette as serving "no other purpose than that of demonstrating the esthetic audacity of the designer." Utzon claims that the sails are a necessary departure from functionalism: "One could not have a flat roof filled with ventilation pipes." "I have made a sculpture," he says. "People will sail around it-so they will see it as a round thing, not as a house in a street...
EVEREST: THE WEST RIDGE by Thomas F. Hornbein. 198 pages. Sierra Club. $25. The sheer sight of Mount Everest, its 29,028-ft. summit supporting the roof of the world, strikes awe in the hearts of mountaineers and non-mountaineers alike. It is a pity that this otherwise magnificent full-color photographic record of the 1963 U.S. expedition includes only one full portrait of the mountain, and that a distant one. The book also could have supplied a map tracing the Americans' course, as well as the routes of the two other successful climbs, the first being the British...
...Then the roof fell in. Sirjohn Papegeorge (no kidding) scored on a tip-in. Seconds later the Huskies, using a full-court press, stole the ball, blew two shots, and scored on a jumper from the corner by Dave Laudati. The Huskies' press and a debatable out-of-bounds call by the referee quickly gave Northeastern possession again, and Barnes tied it up with a 15-foot jump shot. Less than three minutes of play remained...
Harold Smith Prince, 37, has struck his bonanza in one of the roughest, toughest, least tractable businesses: the Broadway theater. A combination businessman-showman, he has produced or co-produced ten hit musicals- including Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiorello! and Fiddler On The Roof -that have earned $5,300,000 and brought him a personal worth of just over $1,000,000. Hal Prince has precisely the right balance of creativity, charm and salesmanship that makes a successful producer. "It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class," he says...